Aletes was Hercules’ descendant who seized the ancient Greek city of Corinth. His name evolved into a modern term for "outlaw ...

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.

While often associated with ancient Egypt, sarcophagi were also used in ancient Rome and Greece. A recent discovery at the Tomb of Cerberus in the Italian town of Giugliano outside Naples has ...

That same year, ancient bronze statues were found in a garbage dump in Tuscany, Italy. In 2013, a 1,800-year-old carved stone head possibly depicting a Roman god found in an ancient trash dump in ...

Archaeologists opened a sarcophagus in an ancient tomb in Italy—dubbed the “Tomb of Cerberus” for its murals depicting the mythical three-headed dog—and found a shrouded skeleton ...

During the excavation, archaeologists witnessed several birds dropping dead after flying too close to the mouth of the passage. The observation corresponded with the ancient writings of the Greek ...

Parts of Europe could face temperatures up to 111.2 degrees due to a heat wave nicknamed Cerberus, after a dog guarding the gates of hell in Greek mythology.

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 ...