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Posted on 01/03/2015 11:01:05 AM PST by SunkenCiv
New details have been revealed about the massive ancient underground city discovered in Turkey's Central Anatolian province of Nevsehir.
The tunnels of the underground city are located under a conical-shaped hill and are wide enough for a car to pass through.
Ozcan Cakir, associate professor at the Geophysics Engineering department of the 18 March University and involved in the excavations of the underground city, said they believe the tunnels were used to carry agricultural products.
"We believe that people, who were engaged in agriculture, were using the tunnels to carry agricultural products to the city. We also estimate that one of the tunnels passes under Nevsehir and reaches a faraway water source," said Cakir.
...the area around the underground city in Nevsehir is best known world-wide for its Fairy Chimneys rock formations.
"There is a fortress on top of a conical-shaped hill; it is alleged to belong to the Seljuks. We made geophysical measurements in an area of four square kilometers and the [underground] city was surrounding the fortress in circular forms," said Cakir, adding that it seemed as though two-thirds of the fortress was carved by means of the tunnels.
The underground city was discovered by a Turkey's Housing Development Administration... urban transformation project. Some 1,500 buildings located in and around the Nevsehir fortress were demolished, and the underground city was discovered when the earthmoving to construct new buildings had begun...
"It is not a known underground city. There are tunnel passages several kilometers in length. We stopped the construction we had planning to do on these areas after the underground city was discovered," Turan had said.
The city is thought to date back some 5,000 years and is located around the Nevsehir fortress. Escape galleries and hidden churches were also discovered inside the underground city.
(Excerpt) Read more at hurriyetdailynews.com ...
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Cool!
I love stuff like this. thanks for the ping! ;-)
Look, I’m not saying it was aliens but...
The underground city [was found] in the 45 hectares of the total 75 hectare area that is within the [urban] transformation project.
I wonder what the objects are?
We have taken 44 historical objects under preservation.
In any case, this is fascinating. Thanks for the ping!
Every nation needs an Armageddon caves for their top brass. I suggest the Turks use these for their’s.
What was really amazing was the ventilation system, which brought fresh air into the city and allowed it to flow through the city before being exhausted.
"I mean, we must be... increasingly on the alert to prevent them from taking over other mineshaft space, in order to breed more prodigiously than we do, thus, knocking us out in superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow... a mine shaft gap!"
We visited this region on our way departing Turkey. I bought a couple of the soap stone carvings that depict the houses. Much of it is off-limits due to the erosion and possible collapse, but it is very interesting.
One would conclude that the presence of such huge works of excavation would be clearly indicated by huge deposits of “spoil,” the excavated soil and rock material that had to have been transported and deposited at some place not too far distant.
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