Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Posted on 06/10/2016 5:47:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The rediscovery of an ancient underground city in Turkey a few years ago was an exciting find—the very kind of exciting find that the internet eats up.
The 5,000-year-old cave villa, found in the city of Nevşehir, is fairly huge, with approximately 3.5 miles of tunnels, and dozens of rooms making up churches, tombs, and other safe spaces.
In comments to National Geographic, Nevşehir Mayor Hasan Ünver noted that there was a bit of a paper trail that went back hundreds of years, but not one that implied that there was an entire city in the area.
"We found documents stating that there were close to 30 major water tunnels in this region," Ünver said.
It's not the first ancient underground city found in Turkey's Cappadocia region—people have been finding them since the 60s—but it's the largest, by far.
These days, urban dwellers think nothing of traveling under the surface as part of their average day. We'll dive into the metro or subway system without thinking anything about it.
But would you spend your entire day there, without walking outside? That sounds like an odd argument to make, but there was a period in which underground cities were seen as a bold, exciting solution to the problems that troubled the metropolis in the 1960s.
It was the revival of a concept that goes back thousands of years. Why didn't it stick?(continued)
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when I gas a gopher, I look for holes that the smoke comes out of besides the one I dropped the bomb into, and seal those holes. I imagine a primitive underground city can be smoked the same way. And then there’s lack of Vit D. And humidity from all those people breathing. It would be a rodent haven, including bats. So it probably wouldn’t be very good temporary protection from invaders, and the surrounding agriculture/animal herds would give the location away.
So, I’d have to guess that ancient underground cities could have been religious event/festival temporary upscale housing for an annual crowd - to accommodate the more well-to-do without expanding the walls or taxing the resources of a nearby city.
In the 1960s, Shatner got more action than Wilt Chamberlain.
D.U.M.B. Deep Underground Military Bunkers. No one knows how many there are but every time you hear complaints about unknown noise in an area it is probably the drilling machine.
LOL
Indeed. When man lives underground he makes it as comfortable as possible. In many cases that is quite comfortable. Dugouts are often used.
But man goes underground to escape something, generally fellow man or the elements...sometimes both. The resulting underground quarters are fascinating.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Underground cities became discouraged once the SJWs realized all the residents turned white.
Living underground becomes increasingly attractive when:
Speaking of Hobbits, they lived underground, but still enjoyed a great view, fresh air & gardens.
Have you ever been to Tokyo? The ‘Metro’ has many levels and stores, markets, condo buildings have entrances in subways below their street level entrances. People not only can live underground some do.
I understood a while back that Finland is plowing some of its North Sea oil monies into expanding their cities underground.
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