Citing The Exodus Decoded ( by that noted con man, Simcha Jacobovici ) tells me that you are not a serious student of this issue. You take events separated by hundreds of years ( Thera and Ramesses III's "defeat" of the Sea People ) and run them together into a whole.
The Minoan civilization on Crete did recover after Thera and was finally done in by Mycenaen Greeks in the mid 14th century BC. What we do not know is how long a period of conflict may have existed prior to the final conquest. Thera, modern Santorini, was blasted to hell. No question about that. I've been to Santorini and photos of the caldera do not do justice to the scale of the blast.
That's our ship...it is 600 feet long. If you stood its bow on the surface of the water the stern would only reach 2/3 of the way up the cliff. As Judas suggested above, the power of volcanoes is indeed humbling.
As for Jacobovici, like most religious fanatics he starts with an assumption that his bullshit is true and then cherry picks to find evidence which supports it. In his case, he tends to misrepresent even that evidence.
http://drchris.me/higgaion/?page_id=119
Scroll down a bit and you'll find a 16 part review ( really a demolition ) of that preposterous program.
The Minoan civilization on Crete did recover after Thera and was finally done in by Mycenaen Greeks in the mid 14th century BC. What we do not know is how long a period of conflict may have existed prior to the final conquest. Thera, modern Santorini, was blasted to hell. No question about that. I've been to Santorini and photos of the caldera do not do justice to the scale of the blast.
That's our ship...it is 600 feet long. If you stood its bow on the surface of the water the stern would only reach 2/3 of the way up the cliff. As Judas suggested above, the power of volcanoes is indeed humbling.
As for Jacobovici, like most religious fanatics he starts with an assumption that his bullshit is true and then cherry picks to find evidence which supports it. In his case, he tends to misrepresent even that evidence.
http://drchris.me/higgaion/?page_id=119
Scroll down a bit and you'll find a 16 part review ( really a demolition ) of that preposterous program.