<< before the caldera occurred. The Minoan's apparently fled to
another stronghold, the island of Crete, where they were virtually
wiped out by the tidal wave following the massive explosion.
>>
Actually I beleive the story is somewhat different....I spent four years on
the Island of crete in the late seventies...unfortunately I never got to go
see Thera...it is a big tourist attraction.
My understanding (I may be mistaken) was that Thera and Crete were
contemperanious...Crete being the homeland. Thera the colony....there are
extensive ruins of the Minoan civilization still extant on Crete...the Palace
of Minos comes to mind...when the Volcano on Thera went Ka-Blooey it made a
BIG ripple...enough to scrub away most of that day's civilization....I
beleive Homer (?)..(the guy who wrote about Atlantis)...was referring to
something in the past ...folklore handed down...before the disaster...
My understanding....based upon what I picked up while there....was that Crete
was the EARLIEST civilization....Assyria..Babylon...Egypt...Greece....all
came later....
Of course...I may be wrong....I was more interested in other things than
history while I was there....but that is my recollection from the museum I
toured while there.
EvMick
Somewhere between San Antonio and El Paso