Many seekers of Atlantis have recently come to believe they have found this core on the Greek island of Thera. Thera s volcano spewed out enough ash to cover parts of the island in a layer 98 feet thick and to bury the main city completely. Even though this eruption occurred about 1520 B.C., the ash is still 13 feet thick in some places today. Some 40 years later, the volcano s cone collapsed, causing the sea to rush in and leaving Thera the knife-edged arc it is today. Hugh tidal waves wreaked such havoc that they are thought to have destroyed Cretan civilization overnight.
Many people think so.
It is also possible that Crete itself was the site of the lost civilization, an idea first mooted in 1909. Crete s contacts with Egypt were suddenly broken at the same time as the drowning of Thera. Egyptian tradition may well have combined what was known of Thera s destruction with the abrupt and final break with Cretan civilization to explain the disappearance of this world power . By an extraordinary coincidence, airline pilots photographed in 1968 what appeared to be buildings off the cost of North Bimini in the Bahamas. Undersea exploration has revealed stone formations resembling hugh cobbled roads on the seabed, and mention has also been made of cyclopean walls, pyramids and stone circles.