Digital reconstruction of "Pluto's Gate" (Francesco D'Andria) |
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.