希臘 Greece Trip Videos 2018

The Greece trip videos are on Youtube. Below 1st video is the starting video of a playlist which will play all videos.

大約3600年前，猛烈的火山爆發摧毀了Santorini島，留下了幾百米厚的火山灰。 Akrotiri鎮像Pompeii一樣被埋葬，為現代考古學家保留了許多精美的壁畫和藝術品。 其中West House是一棟三層樓的建築，擁有令人驚嘆的現代建築和佈局。
I didn't go Santorini museum (closed that day) but went to Akrotiri archaeological site and shot a ruin West House reconstruction video shown on that site. Videos were remade in 11/11/2020. Added verbal explanation, subtitles in English and reconstructed ancient music found in that area.

First video below shows the Akrotiri archaeological data and artifacts. Second video shows the amazing artifacts in Heraklion Archaeological Museum on Crete Island.

About 3,600 years ago, the most violent volcanic eruption devastated Santorini island and left a few hundred meters thick volcanic ash. The town Akrotiri was buried like Pompeii which in turn preserved many fine frescoes and artworks for modern archeologists. The West House is a three-story building with amazing modern architecture and layouts. They even had second-floor plumbing.

The West House is a well-organized building. In the ground floor there are storerooms, workshops, a kitchen and a mill-installation. The first floor is occupied by a spacious chamber used for weaving activities, a room for the storage mainly of clay vessels, a lavatory and two rooms, the one next to the other, embellished with magnificent murals. The first was decorated with the two frescoes of the Fishermen, the fresco of the Young Priestess and the famous Flotilla miniature frieze. The latter ran around all the four walls and depicted a major overseas voyage, in the course of which, the fleet visited several harbors and towns. The final destination of the fleet with the rocky landscape, the configuration of the harbor and the multi-storied buildings is identified with the port of Akrotiri itself.

The walls of the second room were decorated with a single motif which was repeated eight times. This motif is identified as the cabin at the stern of the ships depicted in the miniature frieze. Flotilla, depicts a highly developed society. Excavations and research on the site continue. The West House is a wealthy 3-storey residence with elaborate drainage & wall frescoes.

The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption in 1,600 BC and buried in volcanic ash, which preserved the remains of fine frescoes and many objects and artworks. The settlement has been suggested as a possible inspiration for Plato's story of Atlantis.

In one of the rooms in Akrotiri there was a narrow (40 cm, or 12.5 inch) fresco along the top of the walls. The frescos on the four walls displayed different scenes that might or might not have been thematically related. On one wall was the so-called Marine Festival Fresco, which shows a fleet of ships leaving one city and arriving at another. This fresco has had many interpretations, including that it represents a military invasion (on another wall there is a scene of what looks like a naval battle).