Andrew Schulz

What expelled out of the volcano was so significant that there might even be records from the same time in Egypt of phenomena happening in Egypt that was affecting their weather

And some people even theorize that the effects, because we found the pumice from the volcano in Egypt, and some people wonder if the plagues of Exodus were not caused by the eruption of Santorini.

And so it was such a cataclysmic eruption, it instantly buried the city of Akrotiri in ruins.

like dozens of feet of volcanic material and ash that hardened over time.

And then it blackened the sky over the main island of Crete for days at a time.

Now, a lot of people thought that the whole city of Crete

When they first found the first palace at Knossos and then they started excavating all these dozens of other palaces, they would find this thin burn layer that came from 1600 BC, about when the volcano erupted.

And it was kind of an anomaly because nobody understood, like, why is it such a thin burn layer?

Why is it not just cataclysmic, like raining down on the island?

Because all 100 cities burned down at the exact same time across the entire island.

The whole island like fell apart.

well nobody really understood why and but there's a theory that's that's proposed that i think is kind of interesting that when it blackened the sky every single person on the island had to pull out their torches and their candles and so while it's absolute chaos it's hard to get food you can't go to the market you don't know what's happening i mean the sun isn't even coming back up anymore the smoke is like coming down over the cities and everything it's absolute chaos

people burned down their own cities because just the chaos.

So there's this thin burn layer over the entire island.

So all the cities burned down at exactly the same time in the midst of all this chaos.

Then it's not like Minoan culture disappears, but over the next hundred years, it slips into control of the Mycenaeans, which is like Agamemnon, the guys who waged war on Troy.

They came in and wiped out the people, the Minoans who were living in the island's

who were living in the islands and that were living on the main island just wipe them out basically consume their whole culture they rebuilt the palace of kenosis but that's it all other 99 some odd buildings or some odd uh cities stayed burned down and the mycenaeans built up new ones

Now, these guys had ruled over the whole Greek world for the last 800 years, okay?

Their principal... I don't want to call it a deity, but like their cultural monster, the thing that you would use to identify them.