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Archaeologists have found a "Gate to hell"
Italian archaeologists claim that they managed to find the gate of Pluto (the Lord of the underworld). On the discovery announced in March at a conference in Istanbul.
The discovery was made during excavations of the ruins of the ancient city of Hierapolis in southwest Turkey.
The gates of Pluto is considered the entry point into the realm of the dead. The ancients wrote about this place as filled with poisonous air in the cave is quite large in order to go through the gated entrance could get.
Today from the sanctuary of Pluto there are only remains of a temple, pool and located at the top of the stairs.
"People watched the sacred rites from the steps, but they could not approach the gate. Before them was only the priests," – says the Italian archaeologist.
Functioned BC the temple is an important place of pilgrimage since ancient times. To see the future, pilgrims do ablution at the pool and slept at the gate. Coming from the ground vapor could cause hallucinations.
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The discovery was made during excavations of the ruins of the ancient city of Hierapolis in southwest Turkey.
The gates of Pluto is considered the entry point into the realm of the dead. The ancients wrote about this place as filled with poisonous air in the cave is quite large in order to go through the gated entrance could get.
Today from the sanctuary of Pluto there are only remains of a temple, pool and located at the top of the stairs.
"People watched the sacred rites from the steps, but they could not approach the gate. Before them was only the priests," – says the Italian archaeologist.
Functioned BC the temple is an important place of pilgrimage since ancient times. To see the future, pilgrims do ablution at the pool and slept at the gate. Coming from the ground vapor could cause hallucinations.
Source: /users/413
