SECRETS OF THE DEAD | Sinking Atlantis | PBS

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Five thousand years ago the Minoans, Europe¹s first great civilization, flourished on the island of Crete. Yet in their heyday, they mysteriously disappeared. Sinking Atlantis digs deep into the Minoan soil and history, following archaeologists who are finding evidence of a massive tsunami that devastated the Minoans ­ and may have spawned the myth of Atlantis.

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[niclasjt]

@peymaania And where does the Near East begin? Everything is relative until you decide to draw that subjective line. Here, I think, they use Europe in a geographical sense, rather than a cultural one. The Minoans are most likely of note to all Eastern Mediterranean histories, but particularly so for a modern European historical perspective that looks for historical legacy within its current boundaries.

[asap123123]

@dimstar4now --Are You Still Here? No Sign of Rapture Yet

[peymaania]

Truly, I fail to see where Europe begins?

The Minoans were just another piece of the mosaic of the Ancient Near East.

[vauhxtn]

@TVAExtreme 1 + 1 = 11

[TVAExtreme]

@vauhxtn Im not even going to answer to such stupidity...

[vauhxtn]

o okay so then the white people stole europe from the original colored europeans huh just like america

[TVAExtreme]

@vauhxtn Not all europeans are pale white son....

[vauhxtn]

they say 'first great european civilization' yet the painting has people with colored skin ahaha wth kina brain wash gyp bs is

[ukrainiaNManiak]

you mean that big red planet approaching us from the southern hemishpere. That is the exact date it reaches the earth and sun's magnetic field and completely throws off our eco-system as we know it

[weisserabfall]

if thats the case he's already here