In southwestern Turkey’s ancient city of Hierapolis, was a place called the “Gates to Hell.” Here, in a grotto beneath the city’s theater, Roman priests sacrificed animals to Pluto and Kore (or as the ancient Greeks called them, Hades and Persephone). But the priests didn’t use knives or other human-made weapons to kill the beasts; rather, the victims suffocated on a deadly gas seeping from the cave, a new study finds.
Volcanic carbon dioxide (CO2) would kill the various goats and sheep brought for slaughter, without leaving a mark on their bodies. To the ancient Romans it looked like Pluto and Kore were killing the sacrifices. Today, we know the scientific cause behind the ancient mystery.
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