Vema Survey

Thera was an incredible 6,000,000 kilotons. It would take 6,000 modern nuclear warheads, each with the capacity to wipe out a modern city to equal the magnitude of the Thera explosion.

It is estimated that judging by the size of the Thera crater that seventy cubic miles of debris were ejected skyward, it would have formed a massive fallout cloud that would have blown toward Egypt.

The Vema survey showed that pumice and volcanic debris from the thera eruption covered the seabed only in the southeast area of the volcano, showing that the prevailing winds carried the fallout cloud directly towards Egypt.

Egypt is only five hundred miles away, after the effect of Saint Helen’s and Krakatau had with much smaller fallout clouds there can be absolutely no doubt that Egypt felt the full scorn of the Thera fallout cloud!

The Israelite's may very well have interpreted this fallout cloud as divine intervention and escaped under the cloak of the fallout cloud, pretty much as described in the Bible.

In the 1970's Danish scientists taking core samples of ice fields in Greenland They were looking for atmospheric conditions year by year going back 100,000 years.

They discovered elevated acidic conditions in the atmosphere when there was known volcanic activity such as Pompeii in 79 AD. Their was a plus or minus give of fifty years of the time effect of the ice cores. In 1390 B.C. There was a massive eruption somewhere in the world, this fit the profile of the Thera eruption in the time of the Exodus.

On the island of Crete in 1930 there was another significant piece of the puzzle discovered. In the 14th century Crete was a prominent ship building and center of the Minoan civilization. They left their mark on history by being dominant in trade and not in conquest. By doing so they were the wealthiest nation in the Mediterranean.

Crete being only seventy miles south of Thera was right in line of the volcanic eruption and would have a more severe devastation then that of Egypt.

Archaeological evidence shows that Thera devastated the civilization and was probably the cause of its demise. The complete infrastructure of Crete was demolished, their was evidence of a massive flood and tidal wave.

Excavations at the port town of Amniso, when a villa was discovered within the harbor area, showing the walls to be pushed outward in an odd way.

Large upright stones seemed to have been forced out of position by some huge external force suggesting that they had been been the victim of a tremendous back wash from an enormous tidal wave.

It seems as though the harbor town was devastated by a wall of water that could have easily been the result of the Thera eruption. The Minoan civilization was involved in trade with Egypt. There were artifacts found that were dated to the time of Amenhotep III who ruled between 1385 to 1360 B.C.

There were also indications that in 1360 B.C. Amonhotep III erected hundreds of statues to the goddess Sekhmet, the daughter of Ra.The statues were to replace Mut as the primary goddess.This changing of the principal goddess to Sekhmet was indicative of something wrong despite the stability and wealth of Egypt.

Sekhmet was the goddess of devastation! In Egyptian mythology she was a lioness, a women's body with the head of a lion. She was the daughter of the sun god Ra, and was said to have once almost annihilated mankind.

According to mythology she obscured the sun and rained down fire from heaven, and humanity was only saved through the personal intervention of Ra.

Sekhmet vengeance is similar to the catastrophe created by the Thera eruption. Believing her responsible for the plagues, Amenhotep III may well have erected the statues to appease the goddess.