:21:16
Earth shocks toppled Knossos.
:21:20
lmmense waves 300 feet high
:21:23
crushed the ports and palaces
of the Minoans.
:21:38
A great civilization
had been struck a blow
:21:40
from which
it would never recover.
:21:44
The course
of western civilization
:21:46
was forever changed.
:21:53
On the remains of Thera
:21:55
beneath massive layers
of pumice and ash
:21:57
scientists have penetrated
an extraordinary time capsule-
:22:01
a city buried by the cataclysm-
:22:04
the home of the Minoans
of Thera- Akrotiri.
:22:11
ln these ruins of this
extraordinary civilization
:22:14
many find the source of one
of the world's great legends-
:22:18
of a magnificent civilization
which disappeared into the sea-
:22:23
of a lost continent
which Plato called Atlantis.
:22:55
The tectonic process continues
:22:58
and from the center
of the caldera