Plutonium (cave)
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The Plutonium is a cave near the hot springs at Pamukkale (ancient Hierapolis) in Turkey. The name in Greek (Πλουτωνειον) means "place of Pluto" (the Roman and Greek god of the dead), because many people died in it because it was full of carbon dioxide which seeped out of the ground due to underground volcanic activity. This led to ideas that it was a place of gods, and several temples were built over or near it.
[edit] External references
- http://www.atamanhotel.com/whc-pamukkale.html
- http://www.istanbulhotelsonline.com/turkey-information/iho-pamukkale.php3
- http://www.istanbulhotelsonline.com/turkey-information/iho-aquaduct-fontains.php3
- http://www.fordhotel.net/hieropolis.htm
- http://www.petentour.com/birgul/general/loadpage.asp?id=pamukkale.htm
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