5000-year old underground city unearthed in Turkey

#Cappadocia #Turkey #undergroundcity It was an astounding find – a 5000-year-old underground city in Turkey with nearly 7-Km of tunnels secret churches, tombs and safe havens. This subterranean city was discovered by chance when builders observed signs of a massive network of tunnels while they were shifting mounds of Earth. This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 4 April 2015.

The location is in the otherworldly region of Cappadocia which is well-known for its rock formations, deep valleys and ancient subterranean hideouts carved out from volcanic ash rock. It lies under the Nevşehir fortress. The area is being excavated for a construction project carried out by Turkey's Housing Development Administration (TOKİ).
The multilevel settlement is believed to include living spaces, kitchens, wineries, chapels, staircases and was built to protect residents from invaders. This find is similar to the discovery of another underground city, Derinkuyu. That was in 1963 when a man demolished his basement wall.
Derinkuyu was apparently home to 20,000 residents who lived together underground and the city was reportedly eleven levels deep with 600 entrances. It boasted of areas for sleeping, stables, wells, kitchens, ventilation shafts, tombs, communal rooms, bathrooms.
Geophysicists from Nevşehir University had carried out a systematic study of a 1.5 mile (4 km) area using geophysical resistivity and seismic tomography. The studies would suggest that the underground corridors may go as deep as 371ft (113 metres), but the exact size remains unknown.

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