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...Died. Spyridon Marinates, 73, redoubtable dean of Greek archaeologists, who in 1967 unearthed the remains of an ancient city of 20,000 buried beneath volcanic ash on the Aegean island of Thera; of a skull fracture suffered in a fall at the Thera dig site. A center of ancient Minoan culture, Thera was practically wiped out overnight in a massive eruption about 1500 B.C., leading Marinates to surmise, though less strenuously than some of his colleagues, that its destruction was the basis for Plato's account of the lost island of Atlantis...
...Digging out another buried house last summer, they discovered fragments of a frieze painted in a continuous strip on three of its walls. Partially restored by experts of Athens' Byzantine Museum, the impressive 21-ft.-long wall painting portrays a detailed, DeMille-like epic of invasion and bloodshed. Spyridon Marinatos, the chief excavator and director of Greece's department of antiquities, compares it to the Iliad. "Homer is poetry in words," he says. "This is poetry in color...
...hottest arguments and the highest enthusiasms in archaeology today swirl round the small Aegean island of Santorini. There Professor Spyridon don Marinatos, director of the Greek Department of Antiquities, is digging up evidence to explain the downfall of the great Minoan civilization in the middle of the second millennium B.C. Former TIME Art Editor Alexander Eliot, who has also written extensively on Greek history and mythology, recently visited Santorini to tour the excavations. His report...
...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...