Timewatch Atlantis: The Evidence
TV Episode | 59 min | Documentary, History

Timewatch

Atlantis: The Evidence

TV Episode | 59 min | Documentary, History

Historian Bettany Hughes is amongst a growing number of leading experts who believe that Plato's story of Atlantis was inspired by a real historical event - the eruption in the Bronze Age of a massive volcano on the Aegean island of Thera,...See moreHistorian Bettany Hughes is amongst a growing number of leading experts who believe that Plato's story of Atlantis was inspired by a real historical event - the eruption in the Bronze Age of a massive volcano on the Aegean island of Thera, today better known as Santorini. Bettany presents evidence to support this theory, including the latest scientific findings, which show that the Thera eruption was much bigger than previously thought. And just like Atlantis, Thera was home to an amazing civilisation. Archaeologists have uncovered on the island a lost world - a Bronze Age city entombed by the eruption. This city belonged to the Minoan culture, Europe's first great civilisation preceding classical Greece by a thousand years. Written by Detlef Siebert See less

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Name	Known for
Bettany Hughes Self - Presenter Self - Presenter See fewer	Ultimate Treasure Countdown (2020)
Christos Doumas Self - Director of Excavations, Akrotiri (as Prof Christos Doumas) Self - Director of Excavations, Akrotiri (as Prof Christos Doumas) See fewer	I exelixi tis tehnis stin arhaia Ellada (1981)
Irving Finkel Self - British Museum (as Dr Irving Finkel) Self - British Museum (as Dr Irving Finkel) See fewer	Dixie (III)
Angela Hobbs Self - University of Warwick (as Dr Angie Hobbs) Self - University of Warwick (as Dr Angie Hobbs) See fewer	Secrets of the Bermuda Triangle (2018)
Colin MacDonald Self - Edinburgh University (as Dr Colin MacDonald) Self - Edinburgh University (as Dr Colin MacDonald) See fewer	Curiosity (2011)
Alexander MacGillivray Self - British School at Athens (as Dr Sandy MacGillivray) Self - British School at Athens (as Dr Sandy MacGillivray) See fewer	In Search of Aliens (2014)
Floyd McCoy Self - University of Hawaii (as Dr Floyd McCoy) Self - University of Hawaii (as Dr Floyd McCoy) See fewer	Curiosity (2011)
Clairy Palyvou Self - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (as Prof Clairy Palyvou) Self - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (as Prof Clairy Palyvou) See fewer	Curiosity (2011)
Haraldur Sigurdsson Self - University of Rhode Island (as Dr Haraldur Sigurdsson) Self - University of Rhode Island (as Dr Haraldur Sigurdsson) See fewer	Pompeii: The Last Day (2003)
Costas Emmanuel Synolakis Self - University of Southern California (as Prof Costas Synolakis) Self - University of Southern California (as Prof Costas Synolakis) See fewer	Nova (1974)