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Spyridon Marinatos discovery of Akrotiri and death

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Marinatos discovered Akrotiri  in the 1960s buried below tens of feet of ash and continued excavating here.  He died of a stroke tragically while working on the site. 

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Spyridon Marinatos

Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos (Greek: Σπυρίδων Νικολάου Μαρινᾶτος, November 4, 1901 – October 1, 1974) was a Greek archaeologist.

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