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An ancient and surprising underground city where thousands of people lived.😲🤯
Although the Derinkuyu underground complex, located in Turkish Cappadocia, gained popularity in the 1970s, when Swiss researcher and author Erich Von Däniken revealed it to the world through "The Gold of the Gods", Derinkuyu had long been raising questions. especially among archaeologists in his country.
It was discovered accidentally when a man knocked down the wall of his basement. Upon arrival the archaeologists revealed that the city was 18 stories deep and had everything necessary for underground life, including schools, chapels and even stables.
Derinkuyu, the underground city of Turkey, is almost 3,000 years old, and once housed 20,000 people.

Following the Marble (Theatre) Street to the south, the ancient visitors and the modern-era tourists arrive at the very heart of Ephesus, known as Triodos Square. Even today, the moment when one enters the square can take the breath away. To the west, the magnificent facade of the Celsus Library towers over the space. Moreover, previously hidden from the view, the Curetes Street leading to the Upper City becomes visible. To the east, the colonnades gently made a curve and helped to hide the structures behind, a large peristyle villa and a public latrine.

https://turkisharchaeonews.net/object/triodos-square-and-its-main-monuments-ephesus

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More information: https://turkisharchaeonews.net/site/kad%C4%B1kalesi-anaia

A man in Turkey was chasing his chickens through a hole in his basement while renovating his house. To his surprise, he found an old underground city that used to be home to 20,000 people

In the 1960s, as he was trying to catch his runaway chickens, he accidentally knocked down a wall and discovered a dark tunnel. This tunnel led to the ancient city of Elengubu, now called Derinkuyu.

Derinkuyu is a huge underground city, dug more than 280 feet below the Cappadocia region in Turkey. It is the biggest underground city ever found and has 18 levels of tunnels with houses, storage rooms for food, places for cattle, schools, wineries, and even a chapel.

The exact age of this remarkable city is still debated, but ancient writings from around 370 BC suggest that Derinkuyu existed even back then.

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This strange new ancient tomb was recently uncovered in Turkey which already makes this quite rare already
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