Cave Alepotrypa which means "fox hole" is believed to be the usual cave called Hades in ancient Greek stories. The caves were discovered in the country of Greece is expected to be the site of the Neolithic Village or New Stone Age, which began in Greece about 9,000 years ago.
Naming Alepotrypa itself comes from the legend that says that in a nearby village, a man was hunting foxes with dogs, and the dog goes into the hole, and the man then followed the dog and eventually found the cave. But the story may be very vague, depending on who you ask in the village, they said that the cave was discovered by their grandfather.
A prehistoric cathedral
After the discovery of the cave, Greek officials initially saw the cave as a potential tourist attraction. However, when archeologists realized the secret history contained in them, they were leading the effort to ensure that tourism does not damage sites carelessly.
The main room of the cave has a height of about 60 meters and a width of about 100 meters. Overall, the length of the cave is almost reaching 1000 meters. If you ever watched the movie "The Lord of the Rings", I might remind you that the mines of Moria.
Excavations have been ongoing since 1970 in Alepotrypa have found some tools, pottery, obsidian and even silver and copper artifacts. Troglodyte caves seem to use not only as a refuge, but also as a cemetery and place of ritual.
You can imagine the torches, filled with people who light the fire and bury the dead, "said Galaty." It looks like a prehistoric cathedral, a pilgrimage site that attracts people from across the region and possibly from further afield .
Alepotrypa is the perfect place to block the sea trade from Africa to the eastern Mediterranean, which is right at the southern tip of Greece. The cave was suddenly no longer inhabited, when the entrance collapsed about 5,000 years ago, probably by an earthquake, thus burying the inmates alive. In a similar incident, the collapse of the cave for the last time, leaving everything he's ever had remained in place in Alepotrypa, completely buried under a layer of minerals like pearls for years.
Burial and ritual is really made cave has the ambiance of the dead. Just like Hades, complete with the River Styx, referring to the river in Greek mythology that serves as the boundary between the mortal realm and the world of the dead.
Largest Neolithic village in Europe
The survey results are now showing around the cave there are settlements outside the cave. Overall, hundreds of people may have lived at the site in its heyday, thus making it one of the largest Neolithic village and most complex in Europe.
There are still a lot of unknowns about the cave. Not yet known how deep the existing deposits in the cave. It could be, perhaps the archaeologists will find Neanderthal man down there. In a niche on the side, you find a Neanderthal artifacts at the cave, so it's hard to believe that there will be no other evidence in Alepotrypa.
cave of Hades
Giorgos Papathanassopoulos always found pottery was not from the site, but it comes from somewhere else, and I was a sort of pilgrimage site where influential people are buried. It directs a fantastic idea that the cave is the actual entrance to Hades, that's the source of interest in the Greeks with the world of the dead
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