Santorini excavations THE HISTORY OF THE EXCAVATIONS IN THERA    S.Marinatos
1856: Roman inscriptions were found in Kamari… 1866: The Theran doctor D Nomikos, in collaboration              with the quarry  owner Alaphouzos, and a year after                      the French geologist F. Fouque,  were conducted the first prehistoric excavations in Therasia… 1870 : Fouque wrote “ Santorin et ses eruptions,” Paris … 1870- 1939: French and German archaeologists continued excavations  on the Island,  and at 1895, Baron Hiller Von Gaertringen revealed the ruins  of Ancient Thera on Mesa Vouno…     In 1939 S.Marinatos, a young Greek archaeologist  announced his theory, that  the volcanic eruption of Thera was responsible , for the falling of the Minoan civilisation…  [Picture of S. Marinatos in the excavation area, of Akrotiri…] 1960: The Greek Archeological Society began excavations  in Ancient Thera and Akrotiri…      In April 1967, Professor Spyridon Marinatos, of Athens University, discover the prehistoric city in Akrotiri…  In October 1974, after continuous and intensive work  in the excavation, he died in an accident inside the excavations,  as if faith needed his own sacrifice,  as exchange of the mostly important excavation  that possessed his mind for more than 35 years  and unfortunately was not able to complete…