10 Prehistoric Eruptions That Buried Entire Worlds
10 Prehistoric Eruptions That Buried Entire Worlds Sometime around 1600 BCE, a volcanic island in the Aegean Sea did not simply erupt. It annihilated itself. The Minoan eruption of Thera, the ancient name for what we now call Santorini, released energy equivalent to thousands of nuclear weapons in a matter of hours, and it did so without leaving a single written eyewitness account, without a survivor's testimony, and without any warning that history was about to be buried under meters of ash and pumice. What remained was a crescent-shaped scar in the sea, a caldera roughly 83 square kilometers in area, and a silence where a thriving civilization had been.
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