Archaeological Museum of Thera
Post-earthquake rebuild housing classical grave goods from the island's ancient necropolis.
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This guide to the Archaeological Museum of Thera in Santorini starts with archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos and asks why the building feels so young for artifacts spanning three thousand years, tracing the string of earthquakes that flattened its predecessors. It reaches back to the Bronze Age eruption that buried Akrotiri and carved out today's caldera, and to the theory linking that disaster to Plato's Atlantis. From there it moves into the museum's own galleries of classical and Hellenistic grave goods, including a black-figure krater painted with ships. Look closely at its rim before heading next door.
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