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Posted on 09/27/2014 2:17:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A home owner living in the Melikgazi district of Kayseri province in Anatolia made a surprising discovery while clearing out an area under his house – a subterranean city, of which 4,000 square metres have been excavated so far, according to a report in Hurriyet Daily News. The region of Anatolia in Turkey is famous for its underground cities, particularly in the region of Cappadocia where more than 40 complete underground cities and 200 underground villages and tunnel towns complete with hidden passages, secret rooms, and ancient temples have been found. Mustafa Bozdemir, 50, was bequeathed a house in Melikgazi five years ago and decided to carry out restoration work. He explained that what he thought was a single-storey house, turned out to have multiple levels of ancient rooms beneath it. “We also found some remains during the cleaning works such as human bones. They were examined by a team from Erciyes University,” said Bozdemir.
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Thanks go out to a FReeper who will remain nameless, excellent link to this site.
If an Anabaptist doesn’t believe in infant baptism, does an Anatolian believe all roads should be free?
If I found a hidden city under my house I would STFU.
I expected the article to describe a volcano or earthquake had covered some ancient settlements, however, it appears that the inhabitants actually excavated the earth and lived underground.
Wonder what they were afraid of and why they ‘hunkered’ down.
Mad Mo’s fanatics were coming.
That’s what I did.
Whoops.
Ask not for whom the Anatolian...
Were these cities excavated out of tuff (tufa?)? Hard to believe they could have cut those towns out of limestone, or something even harder.
A hand-built network of underground rooms, courtyards and passageways reminiscent of the ancient catacombs
Unique fruit producing trees, shrubs, and vines growing underground -- some over 90 years-old
Ancient Roman architecture - arches, vaults and stone-built walls
Underground micro-climates -- temperature variations of 10 to 30 degrees
Underground home of Sicilian visionary and self-taught artist/builder Baldassare Forestiere
This site was "abandoned" and closed to the public when I was growing up. We used to sneak out there and explore it when we were in high school. We never engaged in vandalism -- just curiosity. We never got caught.
If I found an ancient hidden city beneath MY house, I would enslave all the gnomes that lived there, and make them weave intricate carpets that I would sell at low prices, making gross profits.
Troglodytes make lousy carpet weavers due to their deformed fingers. I know. I tried it.
Neat! Where is it?
I need a new basement shop. This design should work just fine.
I should mention that my home town is Fresno, CA.
Man, if I had a nickel for every underground city I stumbled upon...
nada
It was pretty exciting stuff for a bunch of teens touring by flashlight! It seemed to be way out in the boondocks at the time, but now it is in the heart of the city. I see by visiting their web page that it is being threatened by Jerry Brown’s high speed rail.
I’ve had to make several trips back over the past two years to care for my mom, who died in April. This site was just about a mile from the hotel where we always stayed. We always said that we should take an official tour to see what they’d done with the place, but we never did. We probably will never go back, now.
Ancient Christians met underground for centuries before they became more or less accepted.
What did they do about rain?
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