Archaeologists Unearth More—a Lot More—of a Massive Underground City (Turkey)

Mental Floss ^ | 02/05/2016 | jen pinkowski

[aimhigh]

It's not the first underground city to be discovered in the region; there are some 250 known subterranean dwellings of various sizes hidden within the fantastical landscape. The two biggest are Kaymakli and Derinkuyu; the latter is estimated to have been able to house up to 20,000 people. Both cities have been known for decades.

But this new underground town, hiding beneath a centuries-old castle on a hilltop right in NevÅŸehir, just might be the biggest. One early estimate by geophysicists put its area at nearly five million square feet and its depth at 371 feet. If those estimates are accurate, the city may outsize Derinkuyu by a third.

[aimhigh]

There is a video in the article that is amazing.

[knarf]

Amazing !

[SpaceBar]

Turkey is amazing. Ruins going back six thousand years.
Too bad they are so politically messed up.
Isis will dynamite anything remaining of decadent non-islamic culture.

[Paladin2]

Apparently NOT a sustaneable society.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Ggg ping

[sparklite2]

[I-ambush]

Byzantine prep pets.

[I-ambush]

Preppers.

[MarvinStinson]

Its NOT Turkey.

Those ancient ruins are ARMENIAN.

[Darksheare]

I just want everyone to note that this is in no way my fault.

[MUDDOG]

Minas Tirith.

[mowowie]

Wow!
That took a LOT of work.

[TheZMan]

Hahaha. Well done. Thank you.

[MattinNJ]

Joe Rogan’s podcasts with Randall Carson and Graham Hancock are amazing. Lots of proof of civilization about 12,000 years ago that was wiped out when comet hit polar caps causing tremendous flood. Along with Noah’s flood, many other cultures reference a giant flood. Randall Carson smashes global,warming but Hancock is a left winger. His bookMagicians of the Gods is a compelling read

[MattinNJ]

Joe Rogan’s podcasts with Randall Carson and Graham Hancock are amazing. Lots of proof of civilization about 12,000 years ago that was wiped out when comet hit polar caps causing tremendous flood. Along with Noah’s flood, many other cultures reference a giant flood. Randall Carson smashes global,warming but Hancock is a left winger. His bookMagicians of the Gods is a compelling read

[Domangart]

You are aware that both the Black sea and the Med had people living in them when the berm gave away and they were flooded?

[Robert DeLong]

Well it certainly proves that Muslims have been a scourge to mankind for many centuries now.

[datura]

Thank you so much for posting this!!!

[faithhopecharity]

Probably makes more sense then living in skyscraper apartments.

[PIF]

People hid there from enemies - not supposed to be ‘sustainable’