Timewatch Atlantis: The Evidence (1982– ) Online
- Original Title :
- Atlantis: The Evidence
- Genre :
- TV Episode / Documentary / History
- Year :
- 1982–
- Directror :
- Natalie Maynes
- Cast :
- Bettany Hughes,Christos Doumas,Irving Finkel
- Writer :
- Bettany Hughes
- Type :
- TV Episode
- Time :
- 59min
- Rating :
- 6.9/10
Historian Bettany Hughes is amongst a growing number of leading experts who believe that Plato's story of Atlantis was inspired by a real historical event - the eruption in the Bronze Age of a massive volcano on the Aegean island of Thera, today better known as Santorini. Bettany presents evidence to support this theory, including the latest scientific findings, which show that the Thera eruption was much bigger than previously thought. And just like Atlantis, Thera was home to an amazing civilisation. Archaeologists have uncovered on the island a lost world - a Bronze Age city entombed by the eruption. This city belonged to the Minoan culture, Europe's first great civilisation preceding classical Greece by a thousand years.
| Episode credited cast: | |||
 | Bettany Hughes | - | Herself - Presenter |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Christos Doumas | - | Himself - Director of Excavations, Akrotiri (as Prof Christos Doumas) |
| Irving Finkel | - | Himself - British Museum (as Dr Irving Finkel) |
| Angie Hobbs | - | Herself - University of Warwick (as Dr Angie Hobbs) |
| Colin MacDonald | - | Himself - Edinburgh University (as Dr Colin MacDonald) |
| Alexander MacGillivray | - | Himself - British School at Athens (as Dr Sandy MacGillivray) |
| Floyd McCoy | - | Himself - University of Hawaii (as Dr Floyd McCoy) |
| Clairy Palyvou | - | Herself - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (as Prof Clairy Palyvou) |
| Haraldur Sigurdsson | - | Himself - University of Rhode Island (as Dr Haraldur Sigurdsson) |
 | Costas Emmanuel Synolakis | - | Himself - University of Southern California (as Prof Costas Synolakis) |