A hole 30 meters in diameter located in the middle of the province of Al-Mahra in Yemen became a legend in the region as a “portal in the underworld”, which gave it the nickname “Poç do Hell”, but what exactly is this sopchyment?
In search of answers, a group of Oman explorers became the first to lower the hole that measures about 120 meters deep. Several fans had already descended the well, but they never came to the end, at least not officially.
This has changed with the 2021 group. “Passion led us to do so,” said Mohammed al-Kindi, a professor of geology at the University of Technology at the German University, who was part of the team at the French AFP news agency. “And we believe this is something that will reveal a new wonder and part of Yemeni history.”
What is the “good of hell?
Despite the legends that surround this hole, it is a natural formation. This type of sink can be formed in many ways, but usually appear after a collapse of the soil.
“There are different types of water,” said Philip Van Beynen, a university in the southern Florida, of sound -so -o -so -so -so, said he was not involved in exploration, to live science. “The most common are collapse and subsidence.”
However, you cannot know exactly what was the cause of the appearance of the “hell well”. At the bottom of the hole, researchers found irregular and stalagmite soil, some of which reached 9 meters high, other formations, such as “cave pearls”, formed by the fall of water in the place, too. In particular, they attracted attention as they are usually formed in straight lands.
Inside were caves, frogs, snakes and insects. In the hole, the water arises from the openings on the wall about 65 meters deep, which formed several waterfalls in the site.
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Legends that surround the hole
The decline of 2021 may have finally delivered the “hell well” of some legends. The well, which is probably thousands of years, has received several explanations from local residents who are trying to decipher its existence.
Some of the myths point to the place as a jail for geniuses that attract bad luck in the region. Others say that the hole attracts people and that it is even a volcano about to destroy the Earth. Some people who passed it also said they smelled.
Explorers believe that the stench is a consequence of the dead animals at the bottom of the well, where several creatures have fallen. About the other speculation, they seem to be just myths …
