Volcanic shards from Santorini (Upper Minoan ash) in the Nile Delta, Egypt

Recognition of Santorini (Minoan) Tephra in Lake Sediments from Gölhisar Gölü, Southwest Turkey by Laser Ablation ICP-MS

“…It may also be of use where major element data alone cannot confidently ascertain the provenance of a tephra layer. For example, the Nile delta tephra deposit (Stanley & Sheng, 1986) has been attributed as originating from the Santorini ''Minoan'' eruption but this has recently been questioned Liritzis, Michael & Galloway, 1996;Eastwood et al, in press). Moreover, recent discoveries of Santorini tephra deposited in lakes in western Turkey suggest that most of Anatolia may have had some tephra deposition in this eruption.…”

The WAVE and 3D: How the Waters Might Have Parted—Visualizing Evidence for a Major Volcanic Eruption in the Mediterranean and Its Impact on Exodus Models

“…These core locations were digitized using Stanley's map in ArcMap, and the exported shapefile was added to osgEarth as a separate file. These five locations contain the volcanic ash with characteristics matching the Thera volcanic eruption of the Late Bronze Age (Stanley and Sheng 1986). The Lake Manzala cores provide correlative evidence for how and where the volcanic ash from the Thera eruption affected the Nile coast.…”

“…Stephen Moshier (Moshier and El-Kalani 2008) describes the geomorphic evidence for a northern Exodus route. Stanley also evaluated sediment cores in Lake Manzala containing volcanic ash deposits from the Thera volcanic eruption of the Late Bronze Age (Stanley and Sheng 1986). And Floyd McCoy, B. Goodman-Tchernov, Steven Ward, and T. Novikova have each collected and modeled evidence for a resulting tsunami from the Santorini (Thera) eruption that should have reached the ancient Nile coastline (Goodman-Tchernov et al 2009;McCoy and Heiken 2000;Novikova et al 2011).…”

The Impact Of Mycotoxicoses On Human History / Utjecaj Mikotoksikoza Na Povijest

“…According to this theory the fi rst plague, red coloration of the river Nile was caused by ashes rich in sulphates brought by winds from the eruption of the volcano Santorini on the Mediterranean coast. Ashes from the Santorini volcano found in the sediments in the eastern part of the Nile Delta in Egypt originate from the eruption that happened during the 19 th Egyptian dynasty (6). Paragraph 55 of the London Medical Papyrus, which was completed in the Late Middle Bronze Age (when the exodus occurred according to the Bible), describes the treatment of caustic wounds caused by the contact with red water from the Nile (7).…”