PAUL DEVEREUX uncovers a sacred reflecting pool, plus ancient tsunamis and stoned child sacrifices
SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY, ROME AFTER THE FLOOD
Sometime between the mid-1500s and mid-1600s BC, a colossal volcanic eruption on the ancient island of Thera (now the Greek island of Santorini) in the Aegean produced a gigantic tsunami or series of tsunamis that destroyed coastal habitations for hundreds of miles around, and ultimately led to the decline of the Minoan civilisation on Crete. Tsunamis tend to drag debris back into the sea, so though dense layers of volcanic ash remain, little other evidence of the Thera tsunami has been found. But a rare, grim exception has been uncovered by an international team of researchers working at a dig site along the shoreline of Çeşme Bay in western Turkey.…
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