Santorini has fallen victim to a series of false, viral videos which allegedly show the Greek island engulfed in lava, as it deals with a real state of emergency caused by hundreds of tremors since the end of January.

Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced thousands of earthquakes this month while researchers have revealed a new magma chamber growing underneath the Kolumbo submarine volcano.

The last time Kolumbo experienced a major eruption was 1650, coughing out ash seen as far away as Turkey. Pyroclastic flows – fast-moving, searingly hot clouds of volcanic ash and gases – killed 70 people.

The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, though?