Greece has its own Pompeii: Thera buried Akrotiri in ash 17th-16th century BCE
74 points by derbOac 4 days ago | 5 comments
cmckn 2 hours ago
A friend and I stayed on Santorini and our rental had this framed print of a guy holding some fish. We were surprised and delighted when we saw the original in the Thera museum, a life-sized fresco perfectly preserved. Akrotiri is an amazing thing to see.
replylinuxftw 5 hours ago
A bunch more photos if you click the wikimedia link in the article: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Xeste_3_of_archa...
replygradus_ad 5 hours ago
Minoan fresco is so unique. They were truly a civilization unto themselves. I wonder how much they had in common with the rest of "Old Europe" (pre-Indo European farmers)
replynatroniks 4 hours ago
They are magnificent! I'd guess their civilization was influenced by the Ancient Near East as well as Old Europe. Hybrid creatures, women flanked by big cats, priestly figures holding serpents, all Minoan iconography with corrolaries in Egypy and the Levant. How I wish we had their myths, their histories.
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I found Fira (nearby "large" town on Santorini, very close to the sites) miserably crowded, but seeing Thera was very cool. This is all about 1500 years older than Pompeii, so a very different experience IMO.