Deadly ancient 'Pluto's Gate' in Turkey still emits lethal gases in Turkey. ... The structure was a sacred site dedicated to Pluto, the Greek god of the underworld, also known as Hades.

Pluto’s Gate is a great example of a ploutonion, a religious temple dedicated to the god Pluto (originally Hades, but the name eventually became synonymous with the underworld itself). It was ...

THE ancient Turkish city of Hierapolis hosts what is believed to be the oldest ‘Gate to Hell’ on Earth. It is a passage once used for animal sacrifices to the Greek god of death, Pluto … ...

At some point in the ancient past, the planet could ... demon who ferried souls to the underworld in Greek mythology. Because Charon and Pluto are so similar in size, their orbit is unlike that ...

Named for the maiden-snatching, shadow-dwelling god of the underworld, the small but mighty planet Pluto is associated with destruction, subversion, depth, intensity, primal urges, the taboo ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Cold, dark and distant, it was named after the Roman god of the underworld.