Santorini

Santorini is a Greek island, also known as Thera, which is located to the north of Crete in the Aegean and is the southernmost member of the Cyclades.
It has been proposed as one of the locations for Atlantis, although this was supposedly destroyed by a Flood, and not a Volcanic eruption.

Santorini is one of the islands which form the circular Santorini Archipelago, this being the submerged caldera of a former volcano.
Between 1627 and 1600 BCE, Santorini erupted, devastating the entire region with tsunamis and ejected material. It is thought this may have led to the demise of the Minoan Civilisation on nearby Crete.

The ancient city of Thera was located on the island of Santorini.
It was founded in the ninth century BCE, and remained inhabited until 726 CE. It was built on top of a ridge of the Messavouno mountain 1,180 ft (360m) high.
Herodotus says there was a drought here that lasted seven years in circa 630 BCE. During this time colonists were sent to found Cyrene in Libya, making Thera the mother city.
Santorini was used as a fleet base for the Egyptian Ptolemaic navy, between 250-150 BCE. There was a garrison of 300 men in the city.
Thera remained occupied during the Roman Empire and was attached to the Province of Asia.
In 726 CE, an eruption by Santorini’s volcano, covered the city, after which it ceased to be inhabited.

Recently discovered in the Ramesseum in Egypt, were a series of medical texts dating from the around the 18th century BCE which are numbered III, IV and V.
The Text was written in vertical Hieratic Script, except for Text V which was written in Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
- Text III covers an eruption of a volcano, possibly Santorini, and how to deal with burn victims.
- Text IV covers gynaecological issues, childbirth, new-born babies, and methods of contraception.
- Text V covers relaxation exercises.

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