Connect with us

Hi, what are you looking for?

Ancient

Researchers Believe Greek Myth Of Hades Is Based On Real-Life Ancient Underground River-Cave Community Where Corpses Were Sent

Researchers Believe Greek Myth Of Hades Is Based On Real-Life Ancient Underground River-Cave Community Where Corpses Were Sent 1

Do not go here alone after dark. Live Sciencewrites:

A giant cave that might have helped serve as the inspiration for the mythic ancient Greek underworld Hades once housed hundreds of people, potentially making it one of the oldest and most important prehistoric villages in Europe before it collapsed about 5,000 years ago and killed everyone inside, researchers say. Cave dwellers apparently used the cavern not only as a shelter, but also as a cemetery and place of ritual.

The complex settlement seen in this cave suggests, along with other sites from about the same time, that early prehistoric Europe may have been more complex than previously thought. The cave, located in southern Greece and discovered in 1958, is called Alepotrypa.

People apparently performed burials in the cave while conducting rituals that involved burning huge amounts of dung and depositing large amounts of colored and finely painted pottery. “The burial sites and rituals…

Comments

You May Also Like

Fact or fiction

To this day, a huge number of ancient sculptures, monuments and age-old engravings have survived, which depict noble people who lived on Earth until...

Mysteries

References to times when there was no moon in the sky can be found in some ancient scriptures and traditions. Democritus and Anaxagoras mention...

Metaphysics & Psychology

The public’s interest in black holes is not attributed so much to interest in astronomy, but to numerous reports that somewhere there is a...

Space

NASA announced the discovery of “biblical hell” – the most terrible and unimaginable place in the universe. This is where the new James Webb...

Ancient

If we say we are not the first civilization on Earth, that’s definitely not a ground breaking statement. However, what is much more interesting...

Fact or fiction

If you believe in heaven and hell, then you probably wondered what it would be like to be there. With heaven, everything is more or...

Metaphysics & Psychology

The human soul is a multidimensional structure, manifested at multiple levels of reality, different in density and frequency. Each level of reality corresponds to...

Ancient

What could happen if representatives of civilization (subject to their real existence) return to Earth, which people called gods in ancient times? By the...

Advertisement