GREECE-CULTURE-ARCHAEOLOGY

Tourists visit one of Greece's most famous archaeological sites, the prehistoric town of Akrotiri on the island of Santorini, which reopened in 2012 seven years after a deadly roof collapse during a press presentation on October 20, 2012. The settlement was one of the most important of its era in the entire Aegean Sea. Habitation began in the late Stone Age in the 4th millennium BCE and it gradually developed into an urban centre with multi-storeyed buildings with magnificent wall paintings and an elaborate drainage system. A volcanic eruption that followed wiped out the island's Minoan colony but the residue helped preserve the buildings of Akrotiri, as it did in Pompeii in Italy. AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP) (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images)