Turkish man knocked down basement wall to find 2,000-year-old underground city — after chasing his chickens through a hole

New York Post ^ | June 15, 2023 | Katherine Donlevy

[stockpirate]

Ping

[mware]

We had a wardrobe in our cellar when I was a kid. I was scared of witches so didn’t mess with it.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Was the city originally named Cthulhuville?

[SunkenCiv]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4161041/posts?page=19#19

[larrytown]

This is a sign to rebuild the basement wall...

[Irenic]

I’m bad, I think I would have kept the find to myself.

[neefer]

"You hate him because he's doing more with your name than you ever will!"

[zeestephen]

Is this where they secretly filmed "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets?"

Back in the real world, I cannot help but wonder how many thousands of slaves died building this under ground fortress.

[Fiji Hill]

Hittites — a Bronze Age Anatolian people — “may have excavated the first few levels in the rock when they came under attack from the Phrygians around 1200 BCE BC.”

FIFY

[sauropod]

bkmk

[Moltke]

The conquerors were extraordinarily brutal... the Muslim soldiers “slew everyone that they met in the streets, men, women, and children without discrimination. The blood ran in rivers down the steep streets from the heights of Petra toward the Golden Horn.

Liberals: See, muslims don't discriminate.

[NautiNurse]

Someone built that basement wall for a reason.

Did the last one out turn off the lights?

[caww]

[BenLurkin]

French Mayor Slammed After Ancient Standing Stones Are Destroyed for New Store
June 15, 2023

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230608-anger-as-pre-historic-stones-destroyed-for-french-diy-store

[SunkenCiv]

Geniuses. /sarc

[fini]

I don't know how important the "standing stones" are. You cannot save everything.

When I was in the Middle East, I saw a wall in a market that was very old. What made the wall interesting was that it was made in three different styles of stone craftmanship. When I remarked of this to a local, he told me, "Yes, old is everywhere and older is below that and really old is underneath the soil."