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About Museum of Prehistoric Thera
The Museum of Prehistoric Thera is situated in Fira, on the island of Santorini in Greece. It was based on the site of the old Ypapanti Church which was demolished in the 1956 Amorgos tremor. The Museum houses an extensive number of old antiquities from different unearthings on Santorini, for example, at Akrotiri, and at the close-by Potamos site. The most punctual unearthings on Santorini were led by French geologist F. Fouque in 1867, after some neighborhood individuals discovered old curios at a quarry.
Afterward, in 1895-1900, the burrows by German classicist Baron Friedrich Hiller von Gaertringen uncovered the remains of old Thera on Mesa Vouno. He concentrated on the settlements of ninth century BC there, accepted to be a Spartan state. The Museum covers the island's history beginning from the Late Neolithic time frame to the Late Cycladic I period. The historical backdrop of Akrotiri returns to 3300 B.C., and the city prospered particularly amid the develop Late Cycladic I period seventeenth century B.C.; the curios from this period are bounteously delineated.
The accumulations are requested sequentially, and incorporate earthenware production, models, gems, divider works of art, and custom articles. The grand specialty of divider painting is spoken to in incredible detail. The island's intricate system of contacts with the outside world is additionally clarified. The Museum represents the Neolithic earthenware found on the island, and Early Cycladic marble puppets and ceramics.
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