It sounds like something out of a horror movie. But Italian scientists say that the “Gate to Hell” is the real deal—poisonous vapors and all.

The announcement of the finding of the ruins of Pluto’s Gate (Plutonium in Latin) at an archeology conference in Turkey last month, was recently reported by Discovery News. Francesco D'Andria, professor of classic archaeology at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy, who has been excavating the ancient Greco-Roman World Heritage Site of Hierapolis for years, led the research team.

D’Andria told Discovery News he used ancient mythology as his guide to locate the legendary portal to the underworld. “We found the Plutonium by reconstructing the route of a thermal spring. Indeed, Pamukkale' springs, which produce the famous white travertine terraces originate from this cave.”

Scribes like Cicero and the Greek geographer Strabo mentioned the gate to hell as located at the ancient site in Turkey, noted Discovery, but nobody had been able to find it until now.

“Pluto’s Gate” has been documented in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, which noted in its description of ancient Hierapolis, “Adjoining the temple on the SE is the Plutoneion, which constituted the city's chief claim to fame. It was described by Strabo as an orifice in a ridge of the hillside, in front of which was a fenced enclosure filled with thick mist immediately fatal to any who entered.”

Strabo (64 B.C.- 24 B.C.) wrote, “This space is full of a vapor so misty and dense that one can scarcely see the ground. Any animal that passes inside meets instant death. I threw in sparrows and they immediately breathed their last and fell.”

The portal to the underworld seems just as bad for your health today. The professor said, “We could see the cave's lethal properties during the excavation. Several birds died as they tried to get close to the warm opening, instantly killed by the carbon dioxide fumes.”

According to Discovery News, the fumes emanated from a cave below the site, which includes ionic columns with inscriptions to Pluto and Kore, gods of the underworld. Also discovered: the remains of a temple, and a pool and stairs placed above the cave. D'Andria is now working on a digital rendering of the site.

Amazingly, this isn’t the first entry to the underworld in the world. In the Karakum Desert, reports the Daily Mail, a fiery pit that’s been lit up for over 40 years has inspired visitors to Derweze in Turkmenistan—and on the Web. Geologists drilling in the area came across a natural gas cavern. Hoping to burn off the gas, they set it on fire. The flames continued to burn, leading locals to dub the site the “door to hell.”



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http://ellist.com/ng/forum/1794/scientists-reportedly-discover-gate-to-hell

Crazy people, if them don see the gate of hell, wetin remain, make them enter na.

Looks like a steam room ??

Chanchit: Crazy people, if them don see the gate of hell, wetin remain, make them enter na.

Me I come even tire. What are dey waiting for? They should enter hell and tell us scientifically how it looks like as they have seen the gate.

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Only God knows what's wrong with this scientists. When they get to real hell, they will know what they saw is fake

Interesting.

God forbid bad tin!

Chanchit: Crazy people, if them don see the gate of hell, wetin remain, make them enter na.

I wonder what they are still waiting for?

Since they don find am, make dey enter kwanu! Let's experiment! Mtchwwwwwwww

Repent for the kingdom of god is at ...

So bricklayer dey heaven, see as hell fire beautiful

Rubbish..............

So na there Jesus enter after im death? Ok

There is hell but I doubt scientists have even come close to discovering it. Hell is more a spiritual existence rather than physical.


I'm sure what they saw was magma beneath the earth's crust.

The ways of God are a mystery to man, he only allow us to know what we need just like the Higgs boson and dark matter.

MAKE THEM ENTER AND GO STUDY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE HEHEHE...

this hell get swimming pool

Repent for the kingdom of God is at ... When are they going to discover God's throne?

END TIME stuff

To believe or not to believe?
This one pass me oo

Pure foolishness of human intelligence.

If true mek dem block am Sharperly.....cos nobody wan enter there.

What a discovery..

cool story

Why they no look for gate to heaven, they go make cool pay sharp sharp, you know