by Teri Ong On my flight to London three weeks ago, I had occasion to watch a BBC documentary on the “Real Atlantis.” The premise of the archaeological detective story was that the quasi-historical accounts of the sunken city of Atlantis probably referred to the destruction of the Minoan culture by water. The current theory is that a giant tsunami inundated Minoan cities when the nearby volcano Thera blew up in the most gigantic eruption known to man. Educated guesses put the death toll at approximately 80% of the total Minoan population, which essentially ended their highly advanced civilization. As […]

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