[heterosupremacist]

#7 ~ Hodar wrote: *Funny thing is that most of these underground cities were Christian; hiding from prosecution due to Muslims.* True!

[BeauBo]

The locals in Cappadocia were carving underground complexes out of the soft local rock long before islam, or Christianity.

They took refuge underground in complexes that were already ancient when Alexander the Great marched through the area.

People continued to expand them over the millenia.

Genetic analysis shows that descendants of the ancient population continue to live in the area.