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24 de ene. de 2019 · When excavations at Akrotiri commenced in 1967, they revealed a prehistoric town with buildings still standing two or even three storeys high. More than 50 years later, the story of the life and death of an extraordinary settlement is still being teased out.
The evidence from the last years of work at Akrotiri, a particularly productive period in terms of excavation and conservation, has not essentially altered the picture of the dispersion of wall-paintings in the settlement, or rather, has differentiated it less than we would perhaps have expected.
Akrotiri was buried by the massive Theran eruption in the middle of the second millennium BCE (during the Late Minoan IA period); as a result, like the Roman ruins of Pompeii after it, it is remarkably well-preserved.
Turning to the subject of the inhabitants of the buildings, the reconstruction of the West House by C. Palyvou is very typical of the luxuriously decorated environment in the private apartments located on the first floor (Palyvou 2oo5, Fig. 241; Pl. 3).
Miniature fresco from Room 5, West House (North Wall) (ÒAssembly on the Hill and the ShipwreckÓ )
It was long felt that an English edition on the architecture of Akrotiri, dealing not only with the building technology, but also with issues of typology, form,...
6 de dic. de 2023 · Hidden under volcanic ash for millennia, the beautiful frescoes in the houses of Akrotiri were recently unearthed. Frescoes from Akrotiri, on the Cycladic island Thera (Santorini), Greece, 16th century B.C.E., Aegean Bronze Age (National Archaeological Museum, Athens) More Smarthistory images.
