The History of Mankind

There are many events of mythology and happenings in the history of mankind. One of the biggest discoveries was the "sinking" of Atlantis. Many people have thought it to be a myth or some made up story, but it may actually be real. Scientist have discovered artifacts and actual evidence of this happening. Atlantis may actually be the Agean Islands. This was a place of prosperity and enlightenment for many of its people at the time. They had the best naval army and thrived on the shorelines of their island. It was more technologically advanced than any other civilization during its time and was wiped clean and destroyed. Not by an invading Greek army or fallen king, but by natural disasters. A volcanic eruption buried the island in ash but was then wiped clean once again by a series of massive tidal waves. What once was an amazing civilization became nothing more than ruins and a faded memory. Archaeologists have been searching for more and more evidence of this great fall and came to the conclusion that Akrotiri was really Atlantis.

Archaeologists have searches high and low in the Agean Islands to discover the origins of the ancient civilizations. They fell upon a series of paintings, one of them being the "Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus Flowers". It is a vast painting on one of the walls in the House Xeste where a girl looks like she would be kneeling down on one knee to be gathering an oddly shaped herb from next to a stream. The girl is wearing vibrant colors such as red, blue and yellow. She has nice looking jewelry around her wrists and earrings. She looked like a very wealthy woman but then again, that was every woman in Akrotiri. This is a clear example of how old it was because Saffron Flowers no longer exist. They were actually wiped out at the same time as Akrotiri. Scientists studied these paintings and found out that they were painted with oil-based paint and showed a minute distinction of depth in the works.

The Two Views of the Harvester Rhyton is a cone-shaped vessel made in 1650-1450 BCE. Archaeologist concluded that it may have been covered with gold leaves and painted with red, blue and yellow paint. The vase has twenty-seven men carved into it all crowded but with happy and excited facial expressions. Archaeologists have proposed many interpretations for the scene whether it being a religious ritualistic sacrifice or a ceremony of some kind. Many believe that the men in the image are singing loudly and