Omani cavers have finally descended to the bottom of the mysterious “Hell’s Well” in eastern Yemen – which many locals avoid because they are sure that gin live there.
To the east of Yemen, not far from the border with Oman, in the desert of the province of Al-Mahra, there is a “Hell’s Well” with a depth of about 110 meters and a width of 30 meters. According to locals and according to Islamic eschatology, this ancient hole is associated with the underworld and the jinn and was created as a prison for the souls of unbelievers. The smell emanating from the depths of the “hole” reinforces such grim speculation.
“The well is very deep: we have never reached the bottom because there is little oxygen there,” officials said earlier. Some researchers suggest that the Yemeni well is a collapsed or sunken mound. However, such mounds usually occur as a result of the formation of segregation ice during freezing and the formation of permafrost.
Chris Foguil, a professor of glaciology and paleoclimatology at the University of Kiel in Germany, also said earlier that the hole in the Al Mahra desert was a hole caused by limestone erosion. Some believe that this is a supervolcano that will erupt in the future (there is no scientific evidence for this view).
One way or another, we are now closer to solving the mystery of Hell’s Well. According to AFP, last week a team of cavers from the cave research team in Oman and geologists from the German University of Technology in Oman descended for the first time to the bottom of the thief.
They saw no imprisoned souls or genies there: only snakes and animal carcasses. As it turned out, it was the decaying bodies that frightened the locals.
The footage published in the media shows dripping formations, as well as gray and lime-green cave pearls – calcite balls. Researchers have taken samples of water, rocks, soil and some dead animals and plan to study them.
Translation: BLIC
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