Earliest date supposed for Major explosive eruption of the (Minoan) Aegean volcanic island of Thera (Santorini)
Ancient legends from Mediterranean region among Greek, Hurrian-Hittite and as far away as Canaanite versions that caused agricultural failures there, correspond to the two eruptions events of Vesuvius and Thera eruptions presented as a tale of a two-round fight with a lull, between superior beings, where the “blood” of a god falls as red ash over land, streams, lakes and sea.
The distance from Vesuvius to the Nile delta is roughly 1,200 miles (1,900km)
Radiocarbon evidence puts the eruption between 1627 and 1600 BC (2s, 95% confidence)
We have found a branch from an olive tree that was buried alive in tephra on Santorini, with branches of the crown partly preserved in life position. The horizontal position of the seven molds of branches in the pumice 1 to 3 m above its base and remnants of olive leaves and twigs covered by the pumice further support our claim that the olive was buried alive. … we determined the calibrated age range of the outermost ring to 1621–1605 B.C. (1σ, 68% confidence) or 1627–1600 B.C. (2σ, 95% confidence). Even when we take into account an uncertainty of 50% in the ring count, potentially caused by growth irregularities of olive, these limits are increased by only a decade.