I have known about Santorini, and the high likelihood that it's massive, caldera-forming eruption was one of the main reasons for the demise of Minoan society (and sadly, it's bare-breasted fashion). But until I saw this NASA Earth Observatory image and associated text, I had not heard of Akrotiri.
Akrotiri suffered the same fate as Pompeii, apparently -- buried under a lot of volcanic ash. So now it's being excavated.
And this is what the women of Akrotiri may have looked like.
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