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Archaeologists Unearth More—a Lot More—of a Massive Underground City (Turkey)
Mental Floss ^ | 02/05/2016 | jen pinkowski

Posted on 02/05/2016 8:34:49 PM PST by aimhigh

It's not the first underground city to be discovered in the region; there are some 250 known subterranean dwellings of various sizes hidden within the fantastical landscape. The two biggest are Kaymakli and Derinkuyu; the latter is estimated to have been able to house up to 20,000 people. Both cities have been known for decades.

But this new underground town, hiding beneath a centuries-old castle on a hilltop right in NevÅŸehir, just might be the biggest. One early estimate by geophysicists put its area at nearly five million square feet and its depth at 371 feet. If those estimates are accurate, the city may outsize Derinkuyu by a third.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: archaeology; catacomb; catacombs; derinkuyu; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; kaymakli; nevayehir; turkey; underground; undergroundcities; undergroundcity
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To: To Hell With Poverty; Darksheare; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; ...
Thanks To Hell With Poverty and Darksheare.

21 posted on 02/06/2016 2:14:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: aimhigh; knarf; SpaceBar; Paladin2; To Hell With Poverty; sparklite2; I-ambush; MarvinStinson; ...

If Robert Schoch is right, these date back to end of the last Ice Age
https://www.facebook.com/WDTRG/posts/488358944572798


22 posted on 02/06/2016 2:18:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: aimhigh

There are people living in some of the Cappadocia caves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knG6JbyP-EM

Search around on youtube for vids on that area and it seems that those caves can be made quite comfortable.

At least you wouldn’t have to worry much about termites and wood rot.


23 posted on 02/06/2016 2:38:11 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: SunkenCiv

The interior of Anatolia is a mysterious place for me.


24 posted on 02/06/2016 3:17:00 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: SunkenCiv
Not really familiar with him so I looked him up. He sounds like he is kind of on the fringe side of life. But after all there is very little distance between intellectuals and insanity.

At any rate he still may be correct with his assessment.

25 posted on 02/06/2016 3:39:13 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong
Well it certainly proves that Muslims have been a scourge to mankind for many centuries now.

Bingo.

26 posted on 02/06/2016 3:58:46 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: SunkenCiv

Where does Schoch come up with the scorching sun theory?


27 posted on 02/06/2016 4:14:43 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: SpaceBar

Six thousand?

Try 8,000 older than the pyramids!

Gobekli Tepe.


28 posted on 02/06/2016 4:48:53 PM PST by djf ("It's not about being nice, it's about being competent!" - Donald Trump)
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To: aimhigh

I am stunned, stuned and flabbergasted by this. Simply astounding!


29 posted on 02/06/2016 5:13:31 PM PST by Rebelbase (Best election ever. Sick of it already, but best election ever.)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s likely to be a Good Thing to hide from the aliens. We could benefit from similar tech today.


30 posted on 02/06/2016 6:41:51 PM PST by Paladin2 (w)
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To: MUDDOG; Robert DeLong; PIF; Paladin2

He began as a conventional geologist, worked at the Haughton Astrobleme impact crater, where the dinos used to thrive in what is now the Arctic. He got interested in the water erosion of the Great Sphinx, which he didn’t think was true — J.A. West got him a trip to Egypt where he examined the Giza monuments and his geology background led him to the inescapable conclusion that water erosion evidence is obvious. He went to a conference in Italy after that, got exposed to a lot of stuff he used to be insulated from as an academic, and there’s been no stopping him since.

Controversies Concerning the End of the Last Ice Age
By Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D
http://www.robertschoch.com/youngerdryas.html

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-underground-city-in-cappadocia-will-rewrite-history.aspx?pageID=238&nID=91554&NewsCatID=375


31 posted on 02/17/2016 11:58:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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