Lost Atlantis Experience - Interactive Museum

This guide to the Lost Atlantis Experience on Santorini starts with a strange absence: not a single body was ever found in the ash-buried Bronze Age town of Akrotiri nearby. It traces the eruption that buried the town around 1600 BCE, the earthquakes that sent its residents fleeing before the mountain erupted, and why historians now connect this real catastrophe to Plato's account of a vanished island civilization. The eruption's ash column is said to have reached some thirty kilometers into the sky, on a scale with history's largest known eruptions.