Akrotiri (Santorini) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-12

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Akrotiri (Santorini)


00:01:10 1 History
00:03:00 2 Minoan settlement
00:03:50 2.1 Excavations
00:06:27 3 Gallery of Akrotiri frescos from various museums
00:06:39 4 Frescoes of Akrotiri
00:08:49 5 Gallery of museum objects on Santorini
00:09:59 6 Objects from Akrotiri
00:11:51 7 Akrotiri today: the connecting path



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Akrotiri (Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced Greek: [akroˈtiri]) is a Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera). The name and the population are currently Greek. The civilization of the Bronze Age city, however, shows affinities to early Cretan civilization, which, going by its writing system (Linear A), was undoubtedly not Greek. The Greeks arrived in Crete during the Mycenaean Period, later than Akrotiri. The date of their diffusion through the Cyclades remains a mystery, but there is nothing identifiably Greek at Akrotiri.
The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption sometime in the 16th century BC  and buried in volcanic ash, which preserved the remains of fine frescoes and many objects and artworks. The settlement has been suggested as a possible inspiration for Plato's story of Atlantis. If true, then the Athenians must have inherited the story from non-Greek sources. Athens itself is too old to have been originally Greek, but the date of its Hellenization is uncertain. In any case the Atlantis speculation is only one of many. Akrotiri has been excavated since 1967.