Three and a half thousand years ago, the most advanced civilization on Earth wasn’t in Egypt or Babylon — it was on the island of Crete. The Minoans had running water, four-story palaces, and cities with no walls, because they feared no one. Then the volcanic island of Thera exploded in one of the largest eruptions in human history, and a single wave changed everything.
In this documentary, we reconstruct the rise and fall of the Minoan civilization: the palace of Knossos, the frozen town of Akrotiri where no bodies were ever found, the eruption that turned day into night, the tsunami that destroyed the greatest fleet of the Bronze Age — and the haunting possibility that this catastrophe gave birth to the legend of Atlantis.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 The Paradise That Feared No One
0:40 Chapter 1 — A Civilization Without Walls
4:22 Chapter 2 — The Island That Was Breathing
7:14 Chapter 3 — The Eruption
10:34 Chapter 4 — The Wave
13:46 Chapter 5 — The Slow Death and the Birth of Atlantis
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