[blam]

I've read that after Thera blew in 1628BC and sent tsunamis over Crete destroying the Minoan civilizations...the Mycenaens came in and 'cleaned-up'.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

50 ancient tombs uncovered

Each filled with registered democrats and Kerry 2004 bumper stickers.

[solitas]

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[NautiNurse]

Minoan Civilization 3000-1400BC

[Graymatter]

Good, maybe one of them will have a Minoan-Mycenaean dictionary in it. Or Minoan-Anything, I'm not picky.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam!

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[nopardons]

I read the same thing...somewhere.

Still,this discovery should provide some interesting new info.

[SunkenCiv]

I've read that after Thera blew in 1628BC and sent tsunamis over Crete destroying the Minoan civilizations.

The idea of the tsunami was dreamed up decades ago. The 1628 BC date for the eruption was seized on due to some chronology problems in the Near East (ahem) and derived from proxy data from Greenland. The actual experts refuted that date by noting that the chemical signatures not only don't match Thera's. Others noted that there are a variety of other traces of eruptions much later than 1628 BC.

None of those eruption traces have been matched with Thera's. All of them are probably from Icelandic volcanoes.

The caldera at Thera is prehistoric (see the Dartmouth website on "Bronze Age Aegean", I think it's chapter 17). The island wasn't a big, unsullied circle that suddenly had its center blown out in historical times. The burial of the towns on the island doesn't even match the depth laid down by Vesuvius in 79 AD (not even close). Herodotus doesn't speak of any eruption or other disaster, but does discuss the island. The only historical reference to an eruption is from 200 BC, centuries after Herodotus (and after Plato, for those "into" the Thera-was-Atlantis equation).

[Shanda]

Ever since reading about it in high school, Crete has always fascinated me.

Such a mysterious island and with such interesting people. I always wondered if it was the true cradle of civiliazation instead of Iraq.

[RightWhale]

Crete just had a 5 or 6 in the past week. Just a matter of time, it's going to go again.

[SunkenCiv]

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Exodus discussion and interesting thread

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[SunkenCiv]

Discoveries at Khania in Western Crete
An Interview with Maria Andreadaki-Vlasiki
http://www.athenapub.com/11khania.htm

"The modern town of Khania lies just above the ruins of the Classical city of Kydonia and the Minoan settlement of the same name, at least during the Creto-Mycenaean times (1400-1100 BC) (fig.1). Due to this, every year, rescue excavations are conducted under my direction. In the meantime, systematic excavations are held on the Kastelli Hill, where the Minoan center and the Classical acropolis lie. Systematic work was begun in 1965 by Dr. Yannis Tzedakis. In the Haghia Aikaterini Square a joint Greek-Swedish team conducts the excavations under the direction of Dr. Tzedakis and Dr. Hallager... The archives of Linear A tablets, roundels, and nodules: This archive consists of 97 pieces of clay tablets, 122 roundels, and 28 nodules, inscribed with Linear A syllabograms and ideograms (fig.4). They contain lists of agricultural products and censuses of people and animals, and attest to the functioning of an advanced administrative system connected with the centralized economy of a powerful society. The Khania settlement holds the second position among the Minoan centers as far as the number of Linear A tablets is concerned, and the first position in terms of the number of roundels."

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