The volcano had been inactive for 19,000 years and then erupted, tearing apart the island of Thera (known today as Santorini) and producing tsunamis that flooded the nearby island of Crete, the centre of Europe's first great civilisation – the Minoans. The drama Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend tells the story of the Minoans.
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