Egypt
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- Jaei 3.3
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- Study Of Ancient Tsunami That Destroyed Alexandria
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- Tel Habua, Sinai - And Lava From Ancient Greek Volcano
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- Rewriting Eastern Mediterranean Chronology? (updated)
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Egypt
A volcano, old wood and history
Spero News (Heinrich Hall)
About 140 generations ago, a massive explosion shook the Aegean island of Thira (Santorini). It was probably audible as far away as modern Iraq or Southern France. The island, including its capital at Akrotiri - hitherto a bustling centre of Aegean trade and in close contact with the great Minoan palaces of Crete, but also with Egypt and the Near East - was buried under up to 50 metres of ash and rock.
Tsunamis devastated much of the Aegean, especially the densely settled northern coast of Crete. Ash rained down on distant areas like Turkey and Crete. A plume of smoke rose tens of kilometres into the air, blowing enormous amounts of dust into the stratosphere and thus affecting the global climate for months or years to come.
More than 2,500 years later, a middle-aged Danish professor stood halfway up the steep edge of the caldera, the crater that now defines the inside of the C-shaped island of Santorini. Awkwardly perched on a ladder placed on the rubble eroding from the cliffs, he was trying to peer into a smallish hole in the cliff face itself. He suspected that a piece of wood just visible in that hollow could help him answer a key question: When exactly did the island explode?
See the above page for the full story.
- Jaei 3.3
Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections “Egyptian Gold in Prepalatial Crete? A Consideration of the Evidence” by Cynthia S. Colburn, Pepperdine University.“ ‘Stop, O Poison, that I May FindYour Name According to Your Aspect’: A Preliminary...
- Feature: Minoan Artists In Egypt?
Heritage Link (Owen Jarus) One of the most perplexing mysteries that Egyptologists and Aegean experts are tackling is that of the frescoes of Tell el-Dab'a, also known as Avaris. This site was used as the capital of the Hyksos, at a time when they...
- Study Of Ancient Tsunami That Destroyed Alexandria
National Geographic Tsunamis like the the one that devastated ancient Alexandria in A.D. 365 may hit the Mediterranean relatively often, a new study argues. Scientists say they have pinpointed the geological fault—off the coast of the Greek island...
- Tel Habua, Sinai - And Lava From Ancient Greek Volcano
The excavations at the Pharaonic site of Tel Habuwa, northeast of Qantara on the Suez Canal, have revealed some pumice that has led to speculation about how it got there, covered at a number of websites (see below). A quick mention for the Pharaonic fort...
- Rewriting Eastern Mediterranean Chronology? (updated)
(http://tinyurl.com/eukqo (Telegraph.co.uk)"A burnt olive tree has helped to resolve a controversy over dating key events in the Mediterranean that took place more than three millennia ago. The new dates would change the chronology of the Minoans, Greeks,...