Ancient Thera/Akrotiri

Which best describes the location of Thera?

• Mediterranean Sea
• Aegean Sea
• Part of a group of Aegean islands in the Cyclades Sea between Greece and Turkey
• Part of the Cyclades, a group of Aegean islands located between Greece & Turkey

How far away from Thera is the island of Crete (roughly)?

• 100 km

• 1000 km

• 10 km

• 25 km

Why is difficult to know when the earliest excavations were conducted at Thera?

• The Nazis destroyed the records when occupying Greece WWII
• The records were lost in a fire at the Greek National Archives Office
• A hungry goat chewed them up
• Few early records were kept and physical evidence of early excavation has been destroyed by farming

Which of the following is NOT an archaeologist who has been involved in excavating at Thera?

• Spyridon Marinatos

• Christos Doumas

• Nikolas Romanov

What is the modern name for the island of Thera?

• Melos
• Crete
• Rhodes
• Santorini

What prompted Spyridon Marinatos to begin digging at Thera (that is, what was the discovery means of the excavation site)?

• Information from computer tomography scans (CT Scannng)
• His theory about a volcanic eruption there + information from locals
• It came to him in a dream
• He read about it on the Internet

Just to check you're paying attention.  When would this advertisement have been created?

• 1950s
• 1960s
• some time after 1994
• some time after 2004

the main excavation site on Thera (Santorini) is called...

• Akrotiri

• Knossos

• Miletus

• Zakro

What is Akrotiri?

• A tomb of a Minoan king
• A Theran painting
• Remains of a Bronze Age town on Santorini
• A popular beverage in Greece 

The centre of the island of Thera (as shown) is actually...

• A freshwater lagoon

• A human made swimming area

• The caldera (cone) of a giant volcano

• a shape created by erosion