More evidence of the Thera (Santorini) big eruption

 

It's pretty obvious that the island of Santorini, in its present form, is the rim of an ancient volcano that obliterated itself and turned a mountain into a caldera.  And it's also been pretty conclusively proven that this eruption had a very depressive effect on the civilization of the Minoans, which was pretty dominant in the Mediterranean / Aegean Sea region in that era.

There's just been a new study published that discovered the effects of the eruption-generated tsunami in Turkey, at a considerable distance from Santorini.  And they also discovered, for the first time, remains of one victim of this catastrophe.  Despite all the evidence that it happened, no other actual remains of victims have been identified.

Here's a plain language article about the discovery.

First Human Skeleton From Bronze Age Tsunami Discovered in Turkey

Just to review, here's a look at present-day Santorini from space.