Archaeologists discover 'Gate to Hell'

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2013/s3729222.htm

by i386 • 13 years ago

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davidjohnstone• 13 years ago

"…destroyed by the early Christians in 6AD" — there's something wrong with that statement.

Edit: according to http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/gate-to-hell-f..., it was in the 6th century AD.

johnbellone• 13 years ago

Only off by a couple hundred years, no big deal.

lostlogin• 13 years ago

When the worlds only a few thousands years old, that's quite a margin of error.

Tenoke• 13 years ago

It was in fact destroyed by the 6 year old Jesus.

pavlov• 13 years ago

According to the Infancy Gospel of Thomas [1], the 6-year old Jesus was regularly breathing life into clay birds, making people blind and killing other children by will, so it seems reasonable that he may have destroyed the Gate of Hell as well.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infancy_Gospel_of_Thomas

peeters• 13 years ago

> according to http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/gate-to-hell-f..., it was in the 6th century AD

...Wouldn't that fail a reasonable definition of "early Christian"? At that point Christianity had been the state church of Rome for 150 years.

pohl• 13 years ago

...Wouldn't that fail a reasonable definition of "early Christian"?

There may be a reasonable definition of "early Christian" that it fails, but it certainly wouldn't fail all reasonable definitions of the phrase.

orangethirty2• 13 years ago

Anyone have the coordinates to the site?

oozcitak• 13 years ago

I don't have the coordinates of the excavation site but the ruins of the old baths are located at: 37°55'29"N 29° 7'29"E

orangethirty2• 13 years ago

Awesome, thanks. Now, let the jokes begin. (:

MrJagil• 13 years ago

I really wish articles like these would include photos, the referenced writings or at least the coordinates.

nhebb• 13 years ago

I know - I had to search for it. This piece includes a bit of video as well:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/travel/news/archaeologists-...

smosher• 13 years ago

Not to mention commas.

xaritas• 13 years ago

In general the Perseus Project hosted by Tufts holds all the original material, and most translations, from the Classical period one could want. Unfortunately it still seems to be running on the same hardware it was back in 1996 when I was making heavy use of it.

So instead, here is a public domain translation of the relevant section from Strabo's Geography. You're looking for paragraph 14, about halfway down the page:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/13D...

duiker101• 13 years ago

Some photos here

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/gate-to-hell-f...

nitrogen• 13 years ago

Once again, the comments on a non-HN site have further diminished my faith in humanity.

JPKab• 13 years ago

And to think I thought they had known where Oracle's headquarters were all along.

stevvooe• 13 years ago

That explains the dead birds all over RWC.

speeder• 13 years ago

Anyone else here is wishing you had time to pack up some breathing gear and cross the gate to see what is inside?

Toenex• 13 years ago

Nothing new, there are loads of them all over the UK. For locations just see here http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/.

jeltz• 13 years ago

The new thing is that this is the gate to hell which Strabo visited. And which also is situated close to a Pluto temple.

JonnieCache3• 13 years ago

The greatest website on the entire internet? It's a hard argument to refute...

morsch• 13 years ago

Another amazing place in the running for the title Gate to Hell: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell

patrickk• 13 years ago

This is what first came to mind for me as well.

Flickr pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flydime/4671890953/

cobrausn• 13 years ago

That... is an actual anomaly from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Amazing.

snake_plissken• 13 years ago

Damn I was hoping for Doom III status.

microtherion• 13 years ago

Did they follow a road paved with good intentions?

Archaeologists discover 'Gate to Hell'

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