More than 3,400 years ago, a catastrophic eruption of the volcano Thera took place on the Greek island of Santorini. It was one of the largest volcanic events in Earth's recorded history.

A new study of a volcanic eruption in 1628 B.C.E. has shown that it wasn't Thera volcano, ... The island of Santorini, officially Thira, is essentially what remains after an enormous volcanic ...

An ancient mystery concerning one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the last 4,000 years has been resolved using data collected from tree rings.. The eruption of the Thera volcano on the Greek ...

While the eruption was previously thought to be Thera on the Greek island of Santorini, ... (1628 BCE) and Thera (Minoan) volcanic eruptions. PNAS Nexus, 2022; DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac048; ...

The skeletal remains of a victim killed by a tsunami generated by the eruption of the Thera volcano 3,600 years ago were unearthed at an archaeological dig site in western Turkey.

The volcanic island of Thera (modern Santorini) in the Aegean Sea depicted during a 19th-century eruption. Archaeologists working more than 100 miles away have found evidence for the Bronze Age ...

The Greek island of Thera, now known as Santorini, was the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history. Scientists believe the volcano erupted in the 16 th century B.C., about 3,400 years ...

Cornell University archaeologist Sturt Manning hopes to settle one of modern archaeology’s longstanding disputes: the date of a volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini, traditionally ...

Tree rings could pin down Thera volcano eruption date Research led by the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has anchored a long sequence of tree rings, providing context for ...

Thera is the most southerly of the Cycladic islands, which fill the Aegean Sea between Greece and Crete. It is an active volcano, near a major earthquake fault, and during its violent past the ...

Ashes From the Thera Volcano Covered Iasos. News September 30, 2013 ... have revealed that the city was buried in ash 3,600 years ago after the volcanic eruption of Mt. Thera on Santorini.

Tree rings could pin down Thera volcano eruption date. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 27, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 03 / 200330152147.htm ...