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00:01The island of Santorini in the Mediterranean Sea.
00:05Today, a peaceful paradise.
00:07But buried deep within these colored cliffs are the ruins of Akrotiri,
00:12an ancient city with a dark past.
00:16A mysterious civilization wiped out by a volcanic eruption
00:20a hundred times more powerful than Pompeii.
00:24That natural disaster changed the course of history.
00:26It was truly a massive catastrophic event.
00:30Today, investigators use innovative underwater robots
00:34and pioneering techniques
00:36to discover the true extent of this earth-shattering eruption.
00:40I don't think that there is any other explosion in written history
00:44that comes close to the Santorini eruption.
00:48For over 3,000 years,
00:50this eruption has inspired myths of the ancient Mediterranean.
00:53Most of the people believe the lost Atlantic city was here.
00:58It was in Santorini.
01:01But what is the truth behind the most destructive eruption in recorded history?
01:07To find out, we'll unearth the lost city of Akrotiri,
01:14reconstruct magnificent homes,
01:18and dive deep beneath this mysterious island.
01:22We'll unearth the fate of this lost civilization,
01:27and reveal the secrets of Santorini's deadly mega-volcano.
01:42Santorini is a Greek island located 140 miles southeast of Athens in the Mediterranean Sea.
01:52A mysterious ancient civilization living here thousands of years ago vanishes without a trace.
01:59Thousands of years ago in Santorini,
02:03a highly developed civilization and culture disappeared suddenly in the area.
02:11Today, this idyllic paradise is famous for its towering cliffs,
02:17colored beaches, and deep blue waters.
02:21But hidden away at Santorini's southern tip are clues to its mysterious past.
02:30Buried 200 feet beneath the ground,
02:34archaeologists uncover Akrotiri,
02:36an ancient city over 3,000 years old.
02:42In its prime, its narrow streets are intricately paved with stone.
02:48Its town square is lined with picturesque houses that tower three and four stories high.
02:56An array of colorful stones decorate the facades.
03:02What is this thriving civilization?
03:05And what happens to its people?
03:13Geologist Dimitrios Paponikolaou investigates Akrotiri's ancient past.
03:21The ruins suggest a highly sophisticated civilization flourishes here for thousands of years before its abrupt end.
03:30It predates Parthenon the Acropolis,
03:34considered all over the world as a symbol of a high level of culture.
03:40Here, this is 1,000 years before that.
03:48Dimitrios examines the city's ancient stone buildings.
03:54He discovers many of the rocks used to construct the upper floors are volcanic in origin.
04:01The upper part contains a lot of volcanic rocks,
04:05either tufts or some lavas.
04:09Dimitrios explores further and discovers more volcanic rock.
04:14But this volcanic rock is completely different.
04:18It's not used as a building material, but is dumped unceremoniously.
04:24Here, we have some huge boulders of pure lava.
04:31And they are found here.
04:32This one, the other one, also very big.
04:34Another one, a little smaller.
04:37The unusual rock provides clues to a major catastrophe that annihilates this city.
04:45The evidence suggests a massive volcanic eruption buries Akrotiri.
04:52But there's no obvious volcanic mountain on Santorini or in the surrounding sea.
05:00So where is the volcano?
05:04To find clues, Dimitrios explores the islands at the heart of Santorini's archipelago.
05:13Santorini is a group of five islands.
05:17Santorini, Theresea, and Aspronese form its outer ring.
05:22The islands of Nea Kameni and Pelea Kameni lie at its center.
05:28Here, the water is tinted in shades of rusty red.
05:33And patches of colored rocks pepper the dark landscape.
05:39Looking at the landscape, we see that there are some contrasting points, areas, small areas, where the color is whitish.
05:50Well, these are locations where gases are coming out from the interior.
05:56The colored rocks suggest the ground here releases clouds of toxic gas.
06:04Exploring further, Dimitrios confirms his suspicion.
06:09At the island's summit, he finds gas escaping through cracks in the Earth's surface.
06:17It's clear evidence of volcanic activity.
06:21I would say that I'm standing really in the heart of the volcano here.
06:27The escaping gases hint at what lurks beneath the island's surface.
06:33A thick layer of fragmented rock stretches two miles underground.
06:41Beneath it lies a spongy layer of crystals and glowing hot semi-molten rock.
06:48All concealing a huge cavern below.
06:53Bursting with up to 1.5 trillion gallons of molten magma.
06:59Hotter than 1800 degrees Fahrenheit.
07:03Is this huge bubbling chamber of magma key to understanding the island's past?
07:12The whole island is the result of volcanic activity.
07:17The type of rocks, the thermal springs, the vegetation, the atmosphere, the fumaroles.
07:24Everything around here is the result of active volcanism.
07:31Santorini is a volcanic caldera.
07:34A huge depression that forms after a volcano erupts.
07:40Stretching seven miles across and covering an area over 30 square miles.
07:45It's the largest active caldera in the world.
07:50Its immense size hints at the enormity of the ancient eruption.
07:55This shows really the energy release and the magnitude of the explosion.
08:02The eruption creates a huge 20-mile-high cloud.
08:07That blasts ash as far as Egypt, over 200 miles away.
08:14Ancient writers describe how the ash cloud plunges the world into darkness.
08:19Veiling the sun and causing a global winter for over two years.
08:25A blanket of ash up to 200 feet thick covers the entire island.
08:36As the emptied volcano collapses into the water, it changes the shape of the island forever.
08:47Like the Roman ruins at Pompeii, the ancient remains of Akrotiri are preserved by hot volcanic ash.
08:57A frozen snapshot of Akrotiri's last moments.
09:02But there's an unsettling mystery.
09:05All over the excavated area, there are no bodies found in contrast to Pompeii, for example.
09:13There you have plenty of bodies buried below the ashes.
09:17Here there's nothing left.
09:20What happens to the people?
09:24How does an entire civilization mysteriously vanish?
09:30At Akrotiri, evidence of man-made destruction provides tantalizing clues.
09:45Santorini's mega-eruption is the most catastrophic volcanic explosion in recorded history.
09:52I don't think that there is any other explosion in written history that comes close to the Santorini eruption.
10:01It buries the ancient city of Akrotiri in lava and ash up to 200 feet thick,
10:07100 times deeper than Pompeii.
10:11But unlike that infamous eruption, at Akrotiri, not a single body has ever been recovered.
10:17This is one of the big differences that have been nobodies found anywhere.
10:25Dimitrios believes a clue to the fate of the people lies inside the city.
10:34Hidden amongst the debris of the ruins, investigators unearth a strange heavy stone, weighing over 30 pounds.
10:45Archeologists believe the grooves once hold ropes, so it can be used like a wrecking ball.
10:53And in a nearby house,
10:57two pots of plaster and a pot of dried paint lie strewn on the floor.
11:03A decoration job hastily abandoned.
11:07Are these home repair and demolition tools clues to what happens to the lost people of Akrotiri?
11:18Today, Akrotiri's empty streets remain eerily filled with rubble and rows of destroyed buildings.
11:26The present-day ruins show it was destroyed several times, and it was rebuilt.
11:34For Dimitrios, the multiple repairs hold clues to the fate of the people of Akrotiri.
11:41We can see in the lower parts, the construction is made of enlarged blocks.
11:45Then you have new construction on top of the early ones, where you have very small blocks.
11:52Different styles of construction suggest the people desperately try to repair their homes after a major disaster.
11:59They were trying to repair rapidly the city.
12:04This is illustrated all over the settlement here.
12:09But what is the cause of all these emergency repairs?
12:15Dimitrios examines the northern part of the city and finds a major clue.
12:23He discovers a solid stone staircase split straight down the middle.
12:30It's a pattern of destruction he knows well.
12:34This destruction you can observe in many places in Greece due to earthquakes.
12:40The broken staircase is proof that a major earthquake also devastates Akrotiri, before the eruption.
12:49The earthquake may have warned the people of impending disaster.
12:59But Dimitrios believes that further warning signals hit the city before the eruption begins.
13:06He hunts for evidence along the coastline.
13:12An open quarry provides him with a timeline of the events leading up to the eruption,
13:17and a clue to the fate of the people.
13:21This is different layers, each one meaning a different period with different characteristics.
13:28The separate layers show the material deposited during different phases of the volcanic eruption.
13:35The lower the layer, the older the event.
13:45Dimitrios examines the first layer for clues to Akrotiri's destruction.
13:51The deposition of this layer means the city does not exist as a city.
13:57It is buried below this layer of several meters thick.
14:02On close inspection, at the very base, Dimitrios discovers a thin layer of ash.
14:09See this yellowish material?
14:12This is a distinctive, very tiny, thinner layer, a few centimeters thick.
14:17Which is the result of the first explosion.
14:24The thin layer of ash suggests the volcano's first eruption is a minor explosion.
14:30This tiny first layer shows the first explosion, which is not a devastating one.
14:35And this made the warning to people to flee it out.
14:42The first small eruption spews thin light ash across the whole of Akrotiri.
14:52The ash and tremors from the volcano's forewarnings damage local houses, which are painstakingly repaired.
15:03But the tremors continue over the months and cause more and more damage to the city's buildings.
15:10As the warning signs increase in their frequency and intensity, the people pack up their valuables and evacuate the island
15:18to escape the erupting volcano.
15:24They took whatever they could just carry and they went away, hoping that they might come back.
15:35Dimitrios believes the people escape across the Mediterranean following the volcano's warning signs.
15:42The mega-eruption instantly wipes out all life left on the island.
15:48But its effects are even further reaching.
15:53A discovery 850 miles away in Egypt provides evidence of its shocking power.
16:01How does this event become the most powerful and violent eruption ever witnessed by humankind?
16:17Santorini's mega-volcano is the most powerful eruption in written history.
16:23All life on the island is destroyed in an instant.
16:26The island changed its morphology and everything was changed here. Everything was destroyed by the major explosion.
16:37A discovery 850 miles across the Mediterranean Sea, in Egypt, provides evidence of its immense power.
16:49In Karnak, archaeologists discover fragments of a stone slab that dates back to the 16th century BC.
17:02Known as the Tempest Stele of Amos, it's the world's oldest weather report.
17:08It describes a huge storm that ravages Egypt, where the sky is hit by a tempest of rain, causing intense
17:16darkness.
17:19Experts believe this could be proof of the far-reaching effects of the Santorini eruption.
17:26What makes this eruption more powerful than any other in human history?
17:38Ingo Sonder is a volcanologist at the University at Buffalo, New York.
17:45He investigates the volcanic process.
17:49I'm fascinated by this process.
17:52I'm fascinated by molten rock and what we can do with it.
17:57During Santorini's eruption, seawater infiltrates the volcano's magmatic chamber deep underground.
18:05When the magma rises in the underground chamber, it cracks the surrounding rock, causing long fractures that reach the sea.
18:17The cracks act like vacuums, and suck the seawater down into the chamber, so the cold water hits the scorching
18:251800-degree magma.
18:29Ingo believes this process of water mixing with magma is key to Santorini's explosive power.
18:37But how can water fuel a volcanic explosion?
18:45To test how water impacts a volcanic eruption, Ingo and his team create their own mini-volcano.
18:54They heat 130 pounds of rock in a high-powered induction furnace.
19:00The rock will melt above 1200 degrees Celsius.
19:04We will heat it up a little bit higher, so we have it really liquid once we pour it.
19:10Ingo sets up the equipment.
19:13Four injection tubes will spray water into the magma.
19:19When the magma reaches 2300 degrees Fahrenheit, Ingo pours it into the container.
19:28First, Ingo and his team will test what happens when water slowly mixes with magma.
19:33He triggers a countdown and clears the surrounding area.
19:46The explosion sends the magma flying three feet into the air.
19:52But how does it compare to when the water is mixed with magma at high speed?
19:58Ingo adjusts the valves.
20:02They run the experiment again.
20:20The molten rock is ejected over nine feet into the air, and melt is spread across the surrounding area.
20:29Ingo's tests show, the higher the speed of the water, the more powerful the explosion.
20:36The speed at which the water enters the melt domains and creates its own mingling.
20:43This is probably the most important component.
20:47The faster the speed, the more the water and magma mix together.
20:51And so the more heat shock the magma receives.
20:56This rapid change in temperature is converted into mechanical energy.
21:01And is what makes the eruption so explosive.
21:08The amount of material Santorini's volcano expels is a testament to the power of the magma-water interaction.
21:16The magma from the interior of the Earth, it takes up together blocks and fragments of the pre-existing rocks.
21:24And everything is spread tens of kilometers away.
21:29As well as lava and ash, an erupting volcano can spew out solid rock.
21:35Chunks bigger than two and a half inches are known as lava bombs.
21:41They can be thrown incredible distances.
21:44In Santorini, archaeologists find lava bombs as far as five miles from the volcano.
21:53The explosion of Santorini's mega-volcano showers the island with volcanic bombs and covers its inhabitants in a blanket of
22:01volcanic ash.
22:02Everything is escalated.
22:04You have bigger and bigger explosions.
22:08But the danger isn't over yet.
22:11As archaeologists dive beneath the water, they discover evidence that suggests the eruption triggers another destructive force of nature that
22:19devastates the surrounding islands.
22:22A tsunami.
22:25Can a discovery on the coast, 75 miles away, provide clues about Santorini's monster wave?
22:39The eruption of Santorini is a natural disaster unparalleled in all of history.
22:47It destroys the ancient city of Akrotiri and changes the shape of the island forever.
22:55The power of the eruption was huge.
22:58It's equivalent of 600 atomic bombs.
23:02Can you imagine this?
23:03It was a catastrophe for sure.
23:04But the danger is far from over.
23:10In Crete, 75 miles from Santorini, archaeologists find unusual chaotic layers of soil.
23:19They contain a strange mixture of debris.
23:22Pieces of ancient pottery.
23:25Plates and cups.
23:27Chunks of wall plaster from once beautiful homes.
23:32And fragments of cattle bones mixed in with volcanic ash.
23:38Nestled amongst this debris are 3,000-year-old seashells and algae.
23:44As far as 1,000 feet inland.
23:47Is this mixture of land and sea proof of a mega tsunami from Santorini?
23:54As a Santorini native, marine geologist Evie Nomikou feels a close connection to the volcano.
24:03I was born in Santorini.
24:05My father was a sailor.
24:07So I'm always close to the sea.
24:09And of course, as a kid, we love to walk on the volcano and try to understand what is happening.
24:17Today, Evie uncovers Santorini's underwater secrets.
24:23She investigates how the volcanic eruption here could trigger a mega tsunami.
24:28Some years ago, the scientists believed the generation of tsunami happened because of the caldera collapse.
24:36Some experts believe the collapse of the caldera into the sea displaces so much water that it triggers the tsunami.
24:47The deadly wave is so huge, towering over 90 feet high, it overwhelms boats and destroys everything in its path.
25:00But is there any truth to the theory?
25:08Evie works with remote-operated vehicle pilot Othanas Vlasopoulos to explore Santorini's submerged caldera for evidence.
25:17The secrets of Santorini are on the seawater, not on land, okay?
25:22We know a lot of what is happening on shore, but we need to figure out what is happening offshore.
25:30Othanas Vlasopoulos prepares an underwater robot.
25:34The cutting-edge ROV is fitted with two cameras to map and model the caldera floor.
25:39Okay.
25:42They deploy the robot off the southern edge of Santorini's Therasia Island.
25:56We are in 40 meters depth now.
25:59Wow.
26:0140 meters.
26:03130 feet below the water's surface, Evie makes a surprising discovery.
26:08On the caldera floor is a massive landslide.
26:13For sure, this is the continuation of a huge landslide, okay?
26:17So the underwater landslide told us this part of the island was land,
26:23and at the end of the eruption, this part was collapsed.
26:28The landslide is evidence that at the time of the eruption, Santorini's islands were connected.
26:34Where the caldera lies today was once dry land and closed off to the sea.
26:41We have the caldera collapse.
26:43But at that time, Santorini was not filled up with water.
26:47The caldera was dry, was completely dry.
26:51The caldera is dry and isolated from the sea, so its collapse cannot be responsible for generating the mega tsunami
26:59that devastates Crete.
27:02So what is the true trigger?
27:07Evie analyzes her surveys of Santorini's sea floor to find clues.
27:14The results reveal a huge volume of volcanic material buried beneath the seabed.
27:21This yellow layer indicates the pyroclastic flows, so the thickness of the pyroclastic flows is almost 300 feet.
27:31Pyroclastic flows are ground-hugging clouds of hot volcanic material.
27:35They reach temperatures of 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, and can travel up to 600 miles per hour.
27:44Three times faster than a bullet train, destroying everything in its path.
27:51Evie believes these huge 300 feet thick deposits of volcanic material are the true trigger of the mega tsunami that
27:58devastates Crete.
28:03The volcano's violent pyroclastic flow tumbles into the sea, displacing so much water it triggers a series of powerful tsunamis.
28:14The tsunamis devastate the coastline of Crete, over 75 miles away, and even reach as far as the Mediterranean's eastern
28:22shores.
28:22The height of the waves was almost 90 feet.
28:27So you had a big tsunami that was devastating all the northern parts of Crete.
28:35At Santorini's southern tip, Evie explores the pyroclastic deposits on land.
28:44It's an alien landscape, dominated by 130-foot-high cliffs.
28:51They are proof of the huge volume of material ejected by the volcano.
28:57You need to imagine all this volume of pyroclastic flows that were entering into the sea, with high speed, and
29:07generated the tsunami.
29:10This was the total catastrophe of the island.
29:17The tsunami and ash wipe out civilizations on islands for miles around.
29:23But with so much destroyed, scientists and scholars wage war over the precise date of these cataclysmic events.
29:32Clues buried underwater over 600 miles away could provide the answer.
29:48The Santorini eruption explodes with the power of two million Hiroshima atomic bombs.
29:56But when did this cataclysmic event happen?
30:02Evidence for the date may lie across the Mediterranean.
30:06I believe that the eruption had led to a tsunami that made its way up to the shores of Israel.
30:13Beverly Goodman is a marine geoarchaeologist.
30:18She studies ancient tsunami evidence along the shores of Israel, and makes some surprising discoveries.
30:25Not only do we have evidence for one tsunami, we have evidence for many tsunamis that have hit the coast
30:30of Israel.
30:32Any evidence here of the Santorini tsunami could help date it.
30:37The way that I go about trying to find information about the coastal history is that we look along the
30:42coastline, but then we also especially go underwater.
30:47Beverly and her team head out to sea to collect sediments near Caesarea Maritima, a Roman city on Israel's Mediterranean
30:55coast.
30:59A team of divers works up to 120 feet beneath the water surface.
31:06To retrieve a core sample, the team uses a hammer to insert a hollow steel tube into the seabed.
31:14The tube fills up with a section of sand.
31:17The divers secure the core to an airbag and launch it to the surface.
31:24Back on land, Beverly opens and analyzes the cores.
31:32The cores can reveal major events in the coastline's history.
31:37So what we can see here is that when we take a core, the top of the core is our
31:43present situation.
31:44This is today.
31:45And as we go down the core, it's sort of like looking at tree rings, where we're looking back in
31:50time.
31:52Variations in the sediment can reveal major events that hit Caesarea's coastline.
31:58We want to pay attention and see where we get any chaotic layers or any big changes.
32:03But as we get down to this part, whoa, boom, we've got this massive chaotic layer.
32:10It's full of pieces of broken shell and tiny little pebbles.
32:15These chaotic layers are evidence of ancient tsunami damage.
32:21Beverly homes in on the larger stones and seashells.
32:26This is actually our smoking gun.
32:29This is our fingerprint of our tsunamis.
32:32The core was collected in about 60 feet water dust.
32:36And these are clams that like to live in much deeper water.
32:39So we know that they had to be transported and moved.
32:43The cores display three strips of chaotic layers.
32:47It's evidence for three tsunami events.
32:51But is one from the Santorini eruption?
32:54And can it help date it?
32:58The first two chaotic layers contain fragments of Roman pottery.
33:03But at the time of the eruption, the Roman Empire doesn't exist.
33:08It suggests those events are too recent to be the Santorini tsunami.
33:13The third layer, however, contains no pottery whatsoever.
33:18Because we don't see a lot of pottery in here, any pottery,
33:22there's a very good chance that this is an earlier event
33:25and maybe even the event related to Santorini's eruption.
33:30Beverly sends shells from this mysterious layer for radiocarbon analysis.
33:38The results are conclusive.
33:40The radiocarbon dates on these deposits have given us a date of 1650 BC.
33:46Her results give a decisive date for the obliteration of Santorini.
33:52These cores are the first evidence of a tsunami deposit from Santorini
33:56arriving to the shores of Israel.
33:59The dating of 1650 BC places the eruption close to the mysterious collapse
34:04of a mighty seafaring civilization, the Minoans.
34:09Although only 70 miles away from Santorini,
34:13the Minoans have a distinct and separate culture from the people of Akrotiri.
34:18The Minoans' civilization is situated in Crete and its surrounding islands.
34:24While most people in Europe live in simple huts,
34:27the Minoans build advanced cities.
34:30But 200 years after the eruption,
34:33the civilization declines and is conquered by invaders.
34:37Is the eruption to blame?
34:45Many archaeologists believe that the Santorini eruption plays a role in the Great Minoan collapse.
34:52The explosion covers the land in ash, choking the vegetation.
34:57And the tsunami destroys many of their fleets.
35:01They become an open target for enemy attack.
35:06It's the worst natural disaster in recorded history.
35:09And the Minoans pay for it.
35:12Finding the tsunami evidence from this far in the eastern Mediterranean
35:16shows that it was truly a massive catastrophic event.
35:20It makes us really understand what it meant for that time.
35:25But who are the people who live in ancient Akrotiri?
35:32Many scientists claim Santorini is the lost island of Atlantis.
35:38Could a discovery on the sea floor provide evidence of a submerged city?
35:53The eruption of Santorini in 1650 BC decimates all life on the island.
35:59And erases an entire civilization from the pages of history.
36:04The mysterious lost people of ancient Akrotiri leave behind no written records of who they are.
36:12Clues, however, can be found in the archaeological evidence.
36:18The ruins preserved by the volcanic ash provide a glimpse of this advanced lost civilization.
36:26Through the front door, a stone staircase leads up to the first floor.
36:31The floors are paved with huge slabs of volcanic rock with vibrant red detail.
36:39Beautiful frescoes adorn the walls, depicting local life by the sea, sailboats and fishermen with their catch.
36:48Alongside an ancient bathroom with a magnificent clay bathtub.
36:53And one of the earliest toilets ever discovered, ingeniously plumbed into the city's own sewer network.
37:00It's evidence of a highly sophisticated and cultured society.
37:05What is this civilization? And who are its people?
37:11Most of the people believe the lost Atlantis city was here, was in Santorini.
37:16There was a huge city, a marvelous city, that has been destroyed completely due to the eruption.
37:23In 360 BC, the Greek philosopher Plato records the legend of Atlantis.
37:30The story of an advanced civilization destroyed by the gods for their arrogance.
37:36It's a story that's fascinated us for millennia.
37:41People have searched for physical evidence of Plato's Atlantis, but found nothing.
37:48Could Santorini be the lost island of Atlantis?
37:52Plato say that the civilization was very brilliant.
37:57And we do know the people that they lived in Santorini at that time, they were very clever.
38:03That civilization was very sophisticated.
38:07But something doesn't stack up.
38:11Plato's Atlantis sinks into the ocean.
38:14But Santorini doesn't.
38:17Could more evidence be submerged beneath the waves?
38:25Evie uses her remote-operated vehicle to explore Santorini's hidden depths.
38:33She's looking for any evidence of ancient man-made structures.
38:38I'm just wondering what will happen if we map the area on the smallest dikes over there.
38:45In Santorini's caldera on the eastern edge of Thirassia Island, 36 feet below the water, Evie makes an extraordinary discovery.
38:54Yeah, what is this?
38:57Yeah, you see the structure of the lava?
39:01It's very peculiar here also.
39:03There is a line here.
39:04Wow!
39:06So we have some kind of steps very close to the land.
39:11An ancient structure bears a striking resemblance to a stone staircase.
39:17But is it natural or man-made?
39:21The steppe could be man-made, okay, because of the shape, the geometry of the steppe.
39:28They don't have this peculiar lava structure around.
39:33This is completely flat and perpendicular.
39:39But why are these steppes under water?
39:43Wow!
39:44Maybe this is a small part of the ancient port, a submerged ancient port.
39:49It's amazing.
39:50An ancient port within the caldera matches Plato's description of Atlantis.
39:57Originally on dry land, the port collapses into the caldera during Santorini's eruption.
40:02It suggests the port sits right on top of the volcano's epicenter when it erupts over 3,000 years ago.
40:10If we found some remnants of the port within the caldera, that means that something that was an ancient city
40:20just in the middle of the caldera, like Plato described.
40:25Evie will need future exploration to confirm her findings and reveal the true relationship between Santorini and Atlantis.
40:34If you connect geography, the history, and the catastrophic event of eruption, that means you have found some evidence of
40:42the lost Atlantis in Santorini.
40:51Santorini is an island born out of fire and brimstone.
40:57Today, the ruins of Akrotiri are all that remains of the sophisticated civilization that once thrives here.
41:06Wiped from existence in the largest volcanic eruption in human history.
41:16By unearthing the remains and diving deep into the crater, experts can piece together the true story of Santorini's mega
41:26-volcano.
41:26And discover the real connection between ancient Akrotiri and the legend of Atlantis.
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