The story of Cerberus dates back many millennia, to the ages of poets like Homer and Hesiod in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C. Hesiod coined the first overt, named reference to Cerberus in his poem ...

A sealed tomb featuring a fresco of Cerberus – the three-headed dog from Ancient Greek mythology – has been uncovered in Italy.. The burial chamber was discovered in Giugliano, a suburb of ...

Archaeology & History 2,000-Year-Sarcophagus Emerges From Famed Tomb of Cerberus. The tomb is named for the mythical three headed dog who guarded the underworld of ancient Greece.

The monster was Cerberus, and, from the 8th Century BC, he was known to the ancient Greeks, and then to the Romans, as the "hound of Hades". His job was to ensure that no-one escaped the realm of ...