An ancient settlement dating back to the sixteenth century BC was found destroyed by a tsunami as a result of a volcanic eruption on the island of Santorini

Archaeologists, near Cesme in Turkey, have discovered traces of an ancient settlement destroyed by a tsunami as a result of the eruption of a volcano on the island of Santorini at the end of the Bronze Age.
In their scientific article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists came to the conclusion about the unusually wide scope of the consequences of this disaster.

A thriving coastal settlement 230 km from Santorini was destroyed in the aftermath of the explosion. The giant wave destroyed homes, killing many local residents, but also covered the harbor and the entire surrounding area with a large amount of magma debris and frozen silt, rendering it unusable for a very long time.

The most famous catastrophe of antiquity occurred at the end of the 17th century BC on the island of Santorini, then it was part of the large island of Thera.
Santorini collapsed in 1610 BC in the eruption of a massive volcano. At the site of the explosion, a crater several hundred meters deep and a volume of 133 cubic kilometers remained – it was filled by the sea.

The eruption and explosion caused a giant tsunami. First of all, the neighboring island of Crete suffered, as fragments of volcanic rocks and ash were thrown onto the shores of the Mediterranean at a great distance.
According to experts, this geological event led to a sharp decline in the Minoan Cretan civilization.