What is in Akrotiri, Santorini? | History, Archaeological Site, Prehistoric Museum Documentary | 4K

What is Akrotiri, Santorini? Ancient Akrotiri on Thera, the modern day Greek island of Santorini, was part of a vast network of the Aegean trade route and Minoan civilization. We will explore the history, the Akrotiri archaeological site, the streets, buildings, and open spaces as well as the items that were found there. The items found in Akrotiri are located in the Prehistoric Museum in Santorini and the National Archeological Museum in Athens, including a number of frescoes are displayed in both museums.
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Bull Leaping Fresco: Zde / CC BY-SA (creativecommons.org/licenses/...) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Saffron Gatherer Fresco: Akrotiri / Public domain commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Mistress of Animals Fresco: National Archaeological Museum of Athens / Public domain commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Flotilla Fresco: pano by smial; modified by Luxo / Public domain commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Fisherman Fresco: Unknown author / Public domain commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

[@itsalliii]

I had the amazing opportunity to visit Akrotiri last year! No words can explain how amazing it was/is and I was in complete aww of it. Walking through it and walking where people did thousands of years ago, is such an amazing opportunity. I’d definitely go back!

[@nupurdasgupta3881]

This video is really excellent and gives some comfort to me!

[@chrisdooley6468]

Excellent video. Don’t give up making videos. Eventually the algorithm will pick up on you. You were in my recommended that’s how I found you. Keep plugging away 👍🏻

[@HistoryVictorum]

Thank you so much for the support! -Veronica

[@royalkumar795]

@@HistoryVictorum I have questions , do you believe most of tools and technologies we are using These Days are *Reinvented and Rediscovered*

[@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449]

@@HistoryVictorum I have recently discovered you and I have been slain by your awesome content and presentations! Would you allow silent portions of this video to be used in an upcoming project? Video footage of ancient artifacts such as pottery is so hard to come by. And also, I'd love to talk about collaborating! Sincerely ~ Nick

[@marcob.7801]

As an admirer of you and the site itself (I had the good fortune to visit about 3 years ago) I cannot begin to tell you how this "refreshed" my memory of the most unique area of Santorini! Great work, keep it up. The algorithim WILL kick in eventually. Just subscribed as well.!

[@chipthomas4169]

Good work! Keep it up.

[@nupurdasgupta3881]

Awesome! Been to Santorini but missed the site. It was closed the day we went. It is our sad luck!

[@ailaneecarrasquillo6569]

This is SO COOL! I hope we're able to uncover more of Akrotiri. When I was in elementary school, I read about the Minoans and the island of Thera. I had no idea of how much was uncovered or even what happened after the initial Minonan-age eruption. Very interesting.

[@tomassterancak]

i dont understand why they do not use lidar technology, i see they used it to exavate places in angkor / cambodia or mayan sites....

[@kenichinishikawa7007]

This video is excellent. I visited Akrotiri and Archeological museum at Fira twice, I can tell that this video is very informative. You can see some frescoes from Akrotiri in National Archeological Museum in Athen. I love paintings of beautiful ladies in the museum in Fira.

[@atlantic_love]

Thank you for sharing this! My knowledge of history is very limited. I only ever knew about Pompeii and Herculaneum.

[@Howard0Beale]

Great ruins, thanks for the video. oh and of course Plato gave a specific year for his Atlantis tale, about 11k years ago.

[@Seven-Planets-Sci-Fi-Tuber]

Thank you, Veronica. Nice work.

[@DroningaboutIreland]

Wow, I literally done this today on my holiday to Santorini and this explains a lot, thank you

[@massimosquecco203]

Dear Victoria, I m very fond of your lectures about Akrothiri and I m waiting for new videos and much more information about this site and, possibly, about Minoan excavations on Crete as well. Please, tell me you are preparing new material for us to see. Anyway, Keep on with your great work, which I m gratefully watching, and I wish you grow in knowledge, influence, and recognition. PS: your videos were a great way to spent time during the quarantine. Never paranoic when I was listening to you!

[@wishgodgirl1903]

Excellent description and tour. Thank you.

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

I have been to Santorini 3 times, but didn't have time to see this 😳 public buses are too slow. Seems like i need to visit again

[@MadebyArt]

Love this! Very informative and interesting!

[@jassonjasson7418]

Fantastic tutorial and excellent video. Thank you so much for your effort 🙏🌞🌹😎

[@springgiacchino3443]

Great video! Just subscribed to your channel! )

[@dictyostelium562]

Fantastic video. Visiting Santorini soon!

[@user-tx2vc9hk9b]

Very nice! Thank you!

[@cum2302]

Thank you for this information! I have a test coming up for Greek and I need to learn this! I appreciate it

[@claudermiller]

Akrotiri was probably a small town on the islands. There was probably a much larger city inside the bay that was completely destroyed.

[@bethlehemeisenhour5807]

Could the golden ibex be from Egypt?

[@Evagelopoulos862]

I imagine the disappointment of abandoning their beautiful city after the premonitories earthquakes. And who knows if their ships managed to reach to a safe place.

[@the_phaistos_disk_solution]

The eruption of Atlantis (Santorini) occurred in 1177 BCE. The Phaistos Disk was dropped into it's final location during those hours. It is a lens on the events.

[@giorgosstamatopoulos8115]

1613 bc dude

[@ryanb9749]

Do we know what the name of this city was 3600 years ago?

[@HistoryVictorum]

That's a great question! From my research I have not found anything indicating the site's name at the time of the eruption.

[@ryanb9749]

@@HistoryVictorum That would be a very interesting find; maybe some of their trading partners have some records on the event that we don't know about yet.

[@ellen4956]

@@HistoryVictorumAkro as a prefix means at the top, or a high-point, such as it is used in the name acropolis. Since "acro / polis" means above the polis, (city), "acro / tiri" is likely to have meant above "Tiri" or "Thira" or "Thera". So it might have been the same name.

[@giorgosstamatopoulos8115]

@@ellen4956 Nop . THIRA or ΘΥΡΑ in greek means DOOR 🏛🏛🏦

[@materialgirl338]

I like your vids but do think you can speak slowly.

[@jasonmelton9755]

Plato was not inspired to write about Atlantis because of the eruption on Santorini. He reiterated a story that was passed down to him over several generations from Solon, the Athenian who traveled to Egypt around 600 BCE where the story was told to him by an Egyptian priest at Sais, in the Delta.

[@enckidoofalling4519]

Cool but not outside pillars of Heracles

[@digenesakritas1107]

The Isthmus of Corinth was also called the pillars of Heracles. The civilization was named Minoan by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans naming them after the fabled King Minos in reality we don't the name of the civilization. One hypothesis is that the Minoans were the Atlanteans.

[@bahagharidon1940]

Cleopatra is a Greek in origin and it means that Egypt and Greece has been connected culturally.

[@nick63837]

Cleopatra came much later buddy! Like thousands of years later!!

[@2coryman]

They were all a Minoan federation and spoke an island dialect

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

There you have the bible

[@becka55978]

Drinking Game: Drink every time she says Akrotiti

[@becka55978]

47 times in 12 minutes ~4 Akrotiri's per minute

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

H disi einai kataliktiki

[@bahagharidon1940]

Atlantis is true.

[@vice4134]

Oh yes, I believe it is!!!

[@2coryman]

Lol. ancient Thera Was completely Minoan, the culture was a federation of Minoan culture principalities

[@charlesfenwick6554]

No proof of a federation.

[@Paraglidecrete]

What is in Akrotiri, Santorini? a Lasioderma serricorne was found , and in egypt mummy analysis found traces of cocaine and tobacco . I wonder who supplied it....

[@KANSTEF]

The Minoans were world emperors of that time and they traveled to America carrying copper and many other goods, including cocaine, to the Mediterranean....

[@jaxxonjinx6763]

Plato died 348 B.C.E. Plato’s Atlantis was 9000 years before his time he said in his story.

[@vice4134]

It was an error when translating from Egyptian to Greek language. It's meant to be 900 years, not 9,000 years. It's impossible to carry down an oral story for that long. Ha

[@Satanna.avemaria]

I don’t think it inspired Atlantis at all because that’s kind of disregarding Atlantis as a real place. I think that the eye of Africa is solid evidence of Atlantis

[@charlesfenwick6554]

Atlantis never existed anywhere. The story of Atlantis was made up by Plato tô use as an allegory.

[@vice4134]

WRONG! The Richat Structure in Northwest Africa??? Oh please, it's not possible. 1. Some adherents of the 10,000 BC hypothesis support the idea that oral tradition would be capable of transmitting information over a long period of time, e.g. over 1000 years and more. But this is not possible. So many things happen within 1000 years. Just imagine the last 1000 years: From the early dark Middle Ages to the Renaissance, from the discovery of America to the USA becoming a world power. Even with writing the perspectives change dramatically in such a period of time. Books in the year 1000 looked quite differently than books in the year 2000. Even with writing it is difficult to transmit information. Just think of Jesus or Muhammad. What do we really know about them? We have the gospels and the hadith literature. But how reliable is this? These texts were not written as historiography, but rather to convey a religious message, and we have difficulties to reconstruct the original text from many fragments of papyrus which show many variants in the text due to manual copying. It is easy to agree that Jesus and Muhammad were historical persons, but reconstructing their exact deeds from the texts we have is much more difficult. Then, there were scientists who thought that certain myths were transmitted over long periods of time in Australia. But the myths they pointed to are rather vague and contain almost no specific message at all. Or there is the imagination of never-changing civilizations of native peoples. But this is wrong. Also their civilizations have changed over time. Some think also that epic texts in rhymes would help to preserve a message over a long time. Well, it surely helps to preserve a message for longer than without the form of an epic. But we know that the ancient epics developed over time, or in other words: they changed over time, until they were put to written text. Only then the development of the text stopped (or at least: slowed down heavily, to be precise). Side note: The transmission of Plato's Atlantis story did not happen by oral tradition. The Egyptians wrote down the story at the time of Atlantis (whenever this was). Solon took written notes with him to Greece. These notes were in possession of Critias' family which was at the same time Plato's family. Distortions of the story may have occurred due to translation (between languages, times and cultures) but not due to oral tradition. 2. The Richat structure does not match Plato's description, even though at first glance it has similarities with Plato's Atlantis. It is much larger and also has more rings than Plato's Atlantis. All claims that there is an exact match are sheer nonsense. 3. The rings of the Richat structure are closed all around. There is no channel from the outside to the inside, and there is no channel from the Richat structure to the sea. There is simply no correspondence here. 4. The Richat structure is 400 metres above sea level and 500 kilometres from the sea. So the ring structure could not have been a harbour. And that was also the case in 10,000 BC, as geology has clearly established. The only difference from today is that the Sahara was not a desert then. 5. There are clearly no traces of a city. There are no remains of walls. There are no roads. The only archaeological finds are arrowheads from the Stone Age or bronze rings from much later times. 6. The mention of the people of the "Atlantes" in Herodotus is not a reference to Plato's Atlantis, but refers to the people near the Atlas mountains, which in turn are named after the titan Atlas from Greek mythology, but not after king Atlas of Atlantis. 7. There is now a large and detailed discussion on the question of whether the Richat structure was Atlantis. We cannot possibly discuss all the arguments here. But our small list is already quite sufficient to establish that this hypothesis does not stand the slightest chance. Summary Yes, there were some interesting things around 10,000 BC, like Göbekli Tepe. But it was still stone age, no high civilization, no writing, and there is no historical tradition going back to this time. Egypt came into being only around 3,000 BC, including the hieroglyphic writing system, be it with or without the Sphinx (which is only carved out of stone, too). Everything about Egyptian chronologies and Plato's Atlantis does definitively not point to 10,000 BC but only to 3,000 BC and later. History has much to offer, but the hype around 10,000 BC is exaggerated and wrong to a great extent. Atlantis is real, but certainly only after 3,000 BC. Clearly, Richat is not the location of Atlantis. It's Santorini (Thera) Island, Greece.

[@vice4134]

@@charlesfenwick6554 WRONG! Atlantis existed. Plato's story is a proof of it. Just like the city of Troy. For a long time, people believed it didn't existed. Now, we have a solid evidence that it did exist. Why would people make things up??? It's legends made in real life. That picture of boats around the island matches to what Plato was talking about. And that big white palace up on the hill is called Knossos Palace in Crete. Therefore, I believe you never existed. LOL

[@melikyazr2883]

Minoan civilization which was anatolian civilization,had weakened after eruption of santorini volcano. Miken civilization which was first ancient grek civilization,,was affected from minoan civilization because mikens were very primitive civilization.

[@dorianblue979]

What are your sources? Because my sources, Herodotus, Thucydides, Apollodorus, Diodorus and many more, tell a different story.

[@charlesfenwick6554]

????? unintelligible.

[@user-ut8xv8ne6u]

Very nice! Thank you!