Ancient underground city discovery in Cappadocia
03/03/2015"The tunnels of the underground city are located under a conical-shaped hill and are wide enough for a car to pass through. Being potentially the year’s biggest archaeological discovery, the area around the underground city in Nevsehir is best known world-wide for its Fairy Chimneys rock formations.
The underground city was discovered by an urban transformation project.
It is not a known underground city. There are tunnel passages several kilometers in length. They stopped the construction we had planning to do on these areas after the underground city was discovered.
The city is thought to date back some 5,000 years and is located around the Nevsehir fortress. Escape galleries and hidden churches were also discovered inside the underground city.”
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