5/30/2023 0 Comments Minoans by J. Lesley Fitton![]() ![]() ![]() Herodotus added to this claim by stating that these inhabitants were completely independent from the Minoans of the nearby island of Crete and supplied sailors for ships of the legendary King Minos. 484 - 425 BC) claim that the earliest inhabitants of the Cyclades were Carians who immigrated from the south-western parts of Anatolia (i.e. The Bronze Age started in the Aegean as early as the late 4th millennium BC, but the origins of its people are not known with certainty. ![]() We do not know what the name of the island and its people were in antiquity. Settled by a thriving Minoan population, Akrotiri met its end in the late 17th century BC during the Theran volcanic eruption. The greater parts of the island circle an active volcano. Santorini is the largest island of the circular archipelago, the Cyclades. Buried underneath ash and pumice, the site was discovered by Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos in 1967 CE. Akrotiri is a Minoan Bronze Age settlement situated on the Greek island of Santorini (classically and more recently referred to as Thera), in the southern Aegean Sea. ![]()
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