re: #575 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Thera (Santorini) is composed entirely of volcanic tuff. The giant caldera in the middle is from the gigantic explosion in ~1650 B.C. that devastated nearby Crete and made the Minoan civilization vulnerable to conquest by the Mycenaean Greeks. Thera was quite possibly the Minoan metropolis at any rate, Crete just the breadbasket where the rural palaces were located.

I first read about the Thera eruption years and years and years ago…..the book I’d read it in was published some time in the late 1950s, and even then, it was being speculated that the 1650 B.C. eruption was what led to the Atlantis legend.