4,000-year-old community where thousands of residents still live in underground houses

Daily Mail ^ | 24 January 2018 | Gabriel Samuels and Tracy You

[mairdie]

A new aerial video has provided a rare glimpse into a mysterious Chinese village where residents have lived in subterranean 'pit yards' for some four millennia.

The series of underground dwellings in central China's Henan Province used to have nearly 10,000 homes.

Right now, around 3,000 people still live there while the others have moved to modern homes, according to Chinese media.

[mairdie]

[fieldmarshaldj]

What a pity.

=ducking=

[WayneS]

Those must be some seriously old residents...

[Responsibility2nd]

Pit-hole Country

=also ducking=

[mairdie]

The ghost subway station of New York: Exquisite picture show an abandoned terminus that's a miniature Grand Central

[Pravious]

Pretty awesome (both the Chinese site AND the NY Subway!).

[mairdie]

Bilbo's green and pleasant land: First look at the magical film set of The Hobbit (so just why did he want to go off on all those adventures?)

[bigbob]

Awesome! Here we call it “the underground”..

[jaydubya2]

Nice digs!

[rjsimmon]

Matmata Douz, Tunisia:

[mairdie]

Happy 100th birthday, Grand Central Station! New York's Old Lady celebrates centenary with spectacular pictures that show she's still going strong

[captain_dave]

Looks like a smart solution. They look better than most old homes in China

[Pontiac]

Australian Opal mines become homes.

Coober Pedy Underground Homes .

Energy efficient in a place where the outdoor temperatures are frequently 140 degrees F.

[mairdie]

The incredible thousand-year-old UNDERGROUND 18-storey city that could house 20,000 people and was discovered by chance when a man was doing DIY on his house in Turkey

Can't show any of the Getty images, but they're definitely worth a look.

[NorthMountain]

The Mines of Moria?

Be careful not to delve too deeply.

[mairdie]

Is this the world's most colourful village? Incredible images show small town plastered with stunning 3D frescoes of wild animals, oceans... and even Garfield the cat

[Red Badger]

Pu Web Lo......................

[mairdie]

Mirror, mirror on the floor…Photographer captures stunning images of grand buildings and urban streets from their reflections in puddles

[mairdie]

A completely non-PC explanation of the derivation of common English words by Henry Livingston, the author of "Night Before Christmas."

For the New-York Magazine. [Sep 1791]
ANTIQUITY and UNIVERSALITY of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE

THE people of the United States are almost generally descended from Englishmen: he that proves therefore that the language of Englishmen (like the old fashioned Hebrew) was once that used by all the world, will add a considerable bolster to occidental vanity.

The venerable empire of China got its name from the following circumstance, if the memoirs of Fo-hung-fo are to be credited. Some thousand moons ago, one of its monarchs happened to be as great an epicure as any modern monarch need to be: he used to summon up his cook every morning after sipping his gin-feng beverage, and demand the bill of fare of the day. Among other viands, the cook once mentioned a chine of pork -- it happened not to be the king's favourite morsel, and in a voice of thunder he reiterated Chine-ha! -- China-ha was echoed from every nook of the palace -- from palace to the city -- from the city to the provinces -- and, finally ended in giving name to the greatest empire the sun ever illumined.

In the capital of this very country, a bevy of young girls took it in their heads to wear their conical bonnets uncommonly peaking - the reader at a blush sees whence came the name of Peking. Some authors, however, and they too of tolerable reputation, say, that one of the emperors of the dynasty of Chung-tchi, was so immoderately fond of pease, that he got the name of Pea-king, and gave it to the royal residence.

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[mairdie]

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