In 1500 B.C., when the Mediterranean was densely inhabited by highly civilized people, the eruption of Thera must have caused a shocking amount of physical damage and mental agony on all the ...

Sadly, the Minoan civilization didn't endure, as an eruption in Thera (now known as Santorini) around 1600 BCE unleashed a chain of devastating events. One of the largest volcanic eruptions in ...