The Underground Cities of Cappadocia
In 1963, a man in the Nevşehir Province of Turkey knocked
down a wall of his home. Behind it, he discovered a mysterious room.
The man continued digging and soon discovered an intricate tunnel system
with additional cave-like rooms. What he had discovered was the ancient
Derinkuyu underground city, part of the Cappadocia region in central
Anatolia, Turkey.
The elaborate subterranean network included discrete entrances,
ventilation shafts, wells, and connecting passageways. It was one of
dozens of underground cities carved from the rock in Cappadocia
thousands of years ago. Hidden for centuries, Derinkuyu‘s underground
city is the deepest.
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