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Derinkuyu Caves, Turkey - BBC World Wonders

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Published on Jun 7, 2011 by

Derinkuyu Underground City is an ancient multi-level underground city in the Derinkuyu district in Nevşehir Province, Turkey. With its eleven floors extending to a depth of approximately 85 m, it was large enough to shelter tens of thousands of people together with their livestock and food stores. It is the largest excavated underground city in Turkey and is part of a network of several underground complexes found across Cappadocia.
It was opened to visitors in 1969 and to date, only ten percent of the underground city is accessible to tourists.

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  • the underground city was a shelter of persian zoroastrian 580B.C , the Capadoccia means Red Horse in persian language on that time,the place where the Cyrus Great battled with Lydian.

  • what tools did they carve these monsters with? laser beams?

  • 7th wonder of the world ! IMO it could have been Pre-Hittite.

    Turkey may very well be the cradle of civilization (golbeki tepe,noahs ark,)... post flood.

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