[SunkenCiv]

Naturally, if you live on an island, and everything's great, then it gets buried in ash from an eruption, you've got boats, you make yourself scarce. The rest of the keyword, sorted:

• Did Vikings beat Portugal to the Azores? Researchers studying animal remains say Norse explorers stepped foot on the islands HUNDREDS of years before the Portuguese [10/31/2021]
• Evidence of people on the Azores archipelago 700 years earlier than thought [10/12/2021]
• Archeology: Prehistoric rock art found in caves on Terceira Island -- Azores [10/06/2012]
• Carthaginian temples found -- Azores [07/10/2011]

[higgmeister]

Going inside this Terceira volcano was an amazing experience.   I just occurred to me that the super aggressive biosphere could easily obliterate a great amount of evidence of earlier cultures.   Just because I didn't see it...   You should take a vacation there and explore.

[higgmeister]

I don’t always remember that Carthage was a Phoenician colony.