Akrotiri (prehistoric city)

Akrotiri is a prehistoric site on the Greek island Santorini (also called Thira, or Thera in Greek). The settlement was destroyed by the Minoan eruption, which happened about 1600 BC. The volcanic ash preserved many objects, and frescoes. The history of the settlement goes back to the 5th millennium BC.

Akrotiri (prehistoric City) Media

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  Plastic of the excavations of Akrotiri, Santorini, Greece.

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  A view down onto Triangle Square in front of the West House in Akrotiri, Greece. Taken on 16 May 2001, 4 years before the 23 September 2005 roof collapse.

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  Layout map of Akrotiri in the Bronze Age.

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  A golden goat figurine, found in 1999.

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  Spring flowers and swallows

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  Bronze age 'Flotilla' fresco from room 5, in the west house at the Minoan town of Akrotiri, Santorini, Greece

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  Offering table, plaster cast of a wooden 16th-century-BC original