Akrotiri is a Bronze Age settlement located in the southwest of the island of Santorini (Thera) in the Greek Cyclades Islands. In the 1600s BC, one of the largest volcanic eruptions that humanity has ever seen occurred on the Aegean island of Thera (now Santorini) - Image
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