In 1963, a man in Turkey knocked down a wall in his basement and accidentally discovered Derinkuyu—an 18-story ancient underground city designed to shelter 20,000 people during invasions.
by zeusht
In 1963, a man in Turkey knocked down a wall in his basement and accidentally discovered Derinkuyu—an 18-story ancient underground city designed to shelter 20,000 people during invasions.
by zeusht
28 Comments
When can I move in?
Been there, fascinating!
A very cool visit in Turkey, awesome tour for me.
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I’d keep it a secret after finding it so me and the boys have somewhere to go and kiss.
Where Saddam Hussein?
If i were him i would have started making money by creating hookers empire
I feel the same way when I mow an anthill
That sounds like a terrible idea though?
I mean, invaders will notice 20K people disappeared.. And I’m fairly sure all the neighbours would be like “oh yeah, that’s the city with the massive underground tunnels!”
Wouldn’t it be better to build a wall?
I’ve toured that before. What a neat experience.
Something something dune fremen
It’s wild how places like this just become forgotten. Really makes you wonder how much of the present day will be remembered in 1,000 years. Assuming any civilization still exists.
Surprised they had air at the bottom.
No link to a source or anything?
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Imagine being at level B7 during an earthquake.
like an ant farm but for people – love it! 😊
It would be funny if he was knocking the wall down to build a fallout shelter.
To me it makes more sense that its a shelter in case of natural disasters
what’ the cleaning fee on that AirBnB?
Yeah yeah that’s great. Let’s see the finished basement.
There be sex obsessed dragons here
Back when motha fuckes could keep a secret.
Built to survive the Adams event
I’ve always thought that the only indication of our civilization ever existing in millions of years would be the oil deposits near the biggest cities created by graveyards, but given the popularity of cremation rising, even this wouldn’t exist after us. The only indication would be a massive dying, loss in biodiversity and, of course, pollution and layer of plastic in the soil
I wonder if the more expensive rooms were upstairs (not too far underground in case of an emergency inside but too close to the top of invaders come) or downstairs?
Real life moria?
I am 100% certain it will be sold to you as an “ancient Turkic heritage site”
plenty of rooms for his nightclubbing