Is Santorini Atlantis?
Every time the remains of a sunken city are discovered people call it lost Atlantis. The island of Santorini in the Greek Aegean is a notable example. Around 1300 BC the whole island was ripped apart in a massive volcanic eruption credited with wiping out the Minoan civilisation on nearby Crete. Although there are striking similarities to the Atlantis account there are also substantial differences. Not least of these is Platos insistence that Atlantis was an Atlantic island. There is also the time scale involved. Santorini erupted just under 1000 years before Platos time whereas the Atlantis disaster was said to have happened over 8000 years beforehand. This means that all things considered Santorini makes a very poor candidate for the Atlantis story. Out now !!! 666 – The Divine Harmony.
