well, that’s great news! But what about Atlantis? Where was it, if it ever existed? Why does this report feel the need to link an erruption to Atlantis? I have read how some people think Atlantis was in the mediterranean whilst others argue it’s the reason we call the atlantic ocean the atlantic ocean.. becasue Atlantis was there.
How can we be so sure that this particular erruption was THE one? Perhaps, the truth behind the legend will one day come to the surface and we may be rather surprised by what we find.. I certainly hope so..
An article by Colin, similar to this one, appeared in the London Daily Mail on Saturday, August 21, 2004.
Atlantis in the Mediterranean?
IN a month’s time, I intend to set off with a team of explorers in search of the lost continent of Atlantis.
Our destination is not, as you might suppose, the mid-Atlantic, or even (as I once believed) the continent of Antarctica. It is the island of Cyprus. For new evidence seems to indicate that the lost Atlantis is the southern part of the island, which was submerged more than eleven thousand years ago, when the Atlantic ocean burst though the dam of mountains that stretched between Gibraltar and North Africa, and created the Mediterranean.
A new study of insect pests found in an ancient storage jar on the Greek island of Santorini suggests the major volcanic eruption that took place there around 1600 B.C.—and which may have inspired the legend of Atlantis—happened in early summer.
The “Atlantis” eruption was one of the most significant volcanic eruptions in human history. The blast is credited for not only ending the Minoan civilization, but also for affecting ancient Egypt and other communities around the eastern Mediterranean, explained Eva Panagiotakopulu, a palaeoecologist and fossil-insect expert at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Based on previous evidence, scientists had concluded that the eruption happened sometime between 1627 to 1600 B.C. But there has been one important and unresolved question about the event: What season did it take place in?
In a new study, published in a recent issue of the journal Naturwissenschaften, Panagiotakopulu and her team now say that based on insect remains found in a jar containing seeds of sweet peas discovered at the Bronze Age settlement of Akrotiri, they think the eruption occurred sometime between June to early July.
It was only during these months, the scientists say, that the insect, a species of bean weevil, would have had an opportunity to infest the crops and end up in the storage area.
“There is a short window from early to mid summer just after threshing which could justify the assemblage [of insects] recovered,” Panagiotakopulu explained in an email.
Fossil insects tweak date of deadly “Atlantis” eruption
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