Ancient Thera

This guide to Ancient Thera in Santorini opens with an old question: whether Plato's sunken Atlantis was really a memory of this island's own eruption, sometime around 1600 BC. It follows the tsunamis that eruption sent toward Crete, and the buried Minoan town at Akrotiri where almost no bodies were ever found. Centuries later, Dorian settlers led by a prince named Theras climbed this same ridge and built the agora, baths and temples you can still walk through, a city that went on trading with Athens and Corinth for centuries under Roman rule.