The gallery that houses the gems of ancient Thira was initiated

Tomb Of Gods Pyramid The gallery that houses the gems of ancient Thira was initiated with extraordinary flourish in the mid year of 2000 at Fira.

The 600 square meter second floor shows discovers dating from the late Neolithic period (fifth thousand years BC) to the 1 seventh c. BC from Akrotiri and other antiquated locales on the island. The shows are sorted out into four units as indicated by best in class museological system.

The principal unit, titled "The revelation of an archeological site" educates guests about the unearthings at Akrotiri. It additionally introduces the hypothesis of Greek classicist Spyridon Marinates that the ejection of the Santorini spring of gushing lava was what brought about the breakdown of Minoan development on Crete.

The second, littler unit on the geography of Thira reports with itemized maps and outlines the volcanic movement that progressively framed what is presently Thira, Thirasia, Palaia Kameni and Nea Kameni. Also, the fossils showed in this unit are confirmation of the way that the Mediterranean atmosphere 50,000 years prior was very little unique in relation to what it is today.

Quite compelling are the stones containing fossils of olive, hemp and palm leaves, and the fossilized stays of an olive irritation and different creepy crawlies.

The third unit incorporates case of the human advancement that created on the island in mid third thousand years BC and finished with the calamitous quake of seventeenth c. BC. After the pulverization of the biggest settlement on the island in the range of present-day Megalohori, the tenants moved to Akrotiri.

Among the displays in this unit are angled and flying creature formed containers, marble measuring utencils, little holes, bronze tomahawks, and marble symbols.

The fourth unit involves a large portion of the historical center, and gloats radiant case of the thriving time of Akrotiri.

A unique spot is saved for the frescoes, which up until a couple of years back were displayed in the National Archeological Museum of Athens.

Conspicuously showed is the exceptional little gold statuette of a wild goat. The model was found inside an earth urn, in 1999, amid the arrangements to introduce the new, inventive safe house that will cover the greater part of the Akrotiri settlement.

This unit additionally contains a rich earthenware production gathering, including pithoi, prochoi, measuring glasses, rhytons, askoi and little amphorae with improvements epitomizing each period of Cycladic Pottery.