I have never agreed with this absurdity. As to the Thera super eruption - I reckon there's a whole crib of corn thar to be shucked... Thank goodness we have super educated egg heads that can argue about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and carry on for centuries... Aligning various ancient cultural chronologies may be successfully cemented soon after a source of universal unlimited free energy is discovered and implemented.
Uh, o-kay. Maybe geothermal energy, using volcanoes...