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@swart @hendric Apparently that volcano wiped the Minoans off the face of the earth so completely, the Greeks had no idea they existed.

"The destruction and disappearance of the Minoans was so complete that by the time of the blossoming of Greek civilization, no memory or record existed that anyone had lived in Greece before. The Egyptians told Solon, the first great Greek leader, on his historic visit to Egypt that he was an ignorant bumpkin who did not know his people occupied a land that had held prior inhabitants. "

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The destruction and disappearance of the Minoans was so complete that by the time of the blossoming of Greek civilization, no memory or record existed that anyone had lived in Greece before. The Egyptians told Solon, the first great Greek leader, on his historic visit to Egypt that he was an ignorant bumpkin who did not know his people occupied a land that had held prior inhabitants. Nothing was known of the Minoan civilization, in fact, until Sir Arthur Evans, the English archaeologist, discovered Knossos in the 1890s. It was he who named the people Minoans in honor of the myth of King Minos (Evans 1921). What they called themselves remains unknown. There are those, however, scientists and scholars among them, who believe that the tale of Thera and the Minoans lived on in the legend of Atlantis. Plato in his Critias and Timaeus chronicled the tale exactly as it was told to him by Solon’s gen- eral’s grandson, including the Egyptian description that an entire civilization— Plato never said continent—sunk in the course of a single day. From that seminal story, Plato, as he clearly states, went on to conjure up a hypothetical utopia. Operating without the concept of zero, Plato calculated the sunken land to be so large that it could fit only beyond the gates of Gibraltar, and thus he called the
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An enormous reservoir holding more than twice the amount of water in Lake Mead sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon, scientists have revealed. The discovery likely makes the entire range the largest aquifer of its kind in the world. @LiveScience reports:

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Live Science · Scientists discover enormous reservoir hidden in Cascades — more than twice the amount of water in Lake MeadBy Skyler Ware
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