Comments by "Jake Alter" (@jakealter5504) on "Top 10 Real-Life Discoveries of Lost Cities" video.

  1. Well, three of the 10 cities on this list were wiped out by large volcanic eruptions with two of those three cities being destroyed by the same eruption
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  2. Atlantis was actually heavily inspired by what happened to akrotiri and Knossos due to the massive damage that was caused by the eruption of Thera
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  3. Atlantis was also likely inspired by the Minoan Civilization which got devastated by the eruption of Thera
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  4. Knossos wasn’t actually destroyed by the eruption of Thera but it was heavily damaged by the eruption, it was lost a few decades later after the region was conquered by the Greeks
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  5. Some of them might be
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  6. Well Pompeii and Herculaneum were also rediscovered by accident too
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  7. I’m not surprised that akrotiri/Knossos and Pompeii/Herculaneum are on this list
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