by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: April 23, 2009   Last Updated: May 06, 2009

If the eruption of There/Santorini in the Mediterrainian about 1500 B.C. (or 1625 B.C. per uncertain dating) that destroyed Minoan settlements followed maybe 50 years later by the fall of Crete's Knostic culture can be said to have been the Atlantan civilization referred to by Plato nearly a thousand years later-then the archeological evidence for the existence of Atlantis is good. The end of the island civilization in late Minoan A because of a catastrophic volcanic eruption of the Aegean Island made it in to regional historical legend...

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Plato wrote about an island civilization surrounded by 'concentric rings'. Plato's mention of Atlantis in the Timeaus is believed to have passed to him from Egyptian reports by way of Solon, who had visited Egypt.

The Minoan civilization was far reaching in the Eastern Meditterainin. It is possible that the Phoenician sailing culture that founded Carthage and settled along North Africa may have been a diaspora of displaced Minoans following the eruption cica 1500 to 1600. The Minoan cultures linear A script may have been the first writing in Europe. It reached nearly to MAcedonia as the Minoan culture influenced Gerek development until the Mycenaean civilization .

The eruption of Thera created historical waves that reach even unto the shoreline of the 3rd millennium with the legends of Atlantis. The eruption may have sent large tsunami waves over the Great Bitter Lake drowning the Army of Ramses II in pursuit of Moses and the Jews in the process of Exodus.

Plato wrote about an island civilization surrounded by 'concentric rings'. Plato's mention of Atlantis in the Timeaus is believed to have passed to him from Egyptian reports by way of Solon, who had visited Egypt.

The Minoan civilization was far reaching in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is possible that the Phoenician sailing culture that founded Carthage and settled along North Africa may have been a diaspora of displaced Minoans following the eruption cica 1500 to 1600. The Minoan cultures linear A script may have been the first writing in Europe. It reached nearly to Macedonia as the Minoan culture influenced Gerek development until the Mycenaean civilization .

The eruption of Thera created historical waves that reach even unto the shoreline of the 3rd millennium with legends of Atlantis. The eruption may have sent large tsunami waves over to Egypt and Lake Manzala to Great Bitter Lake and the Red Sea drowning the Army of Ramses II in pursuit of Moses and the Jews processing through Exodus.

The main center of the Minoan civilization may have been at There and its sudden loss would have been a devastating influence on its power; legends of the lost civilization would have persisted through the centuries. The Minoan culture located at Crete required another 50 years to fade into historical oblivion-such a time period would be consistent with a part of a former empire bereft of the strength of the remainder of the society-like a Roman Empire suddenly without Rome its power would have waned precipitously.

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