Word: spyridon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who sailed to Thera last year in the institute's research vessel, Chain. When his seismic profiles of the island showed geophysical conformations that seemed to match Plato's description of Atlantis, Mavor organized a full-fledged expedition headed by Greek Archaeologist Spyridon Marinates and including Professor Emily Vermeule, research fellow at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Shortly after the diggers arrived, they detected artifacts buried in a 2,500-ft. swath across the island. Digging nine trenches, the group unearthed indications of a city half a square mile in size that...
...many years, archaeologists believed that a sudden earthquake had devastated the island, or that it had been systematically conquered and destroyed by invaders from Greece. In 1939, Greek Archaeologist Spyridon Marinates suggested that the Minoan civilization had actually been destroyed around 1500 B.C. by falling ash and poisonous fumes from a volcanic eruption on the island of Thera (now called Santorin), 75 miles to the north. But the volcanic theory did not quite square with all the available facts; some of the pottery found on Crete, for example, had apparently been fashioned as late as 1450 B.C., 50 years after...