In scenes right out of a movie, a Turkish homeowner chasing his chickens through a hole in his basement came across an abandoned underground Turkish city that once housed 20,000 people. Imagine all the AirBnB’ing he could do!
The man, who was renovating at the time, knocked down the wall in order to retrieve his escaped chickens after he kept losing them to a hole in the wall, and instead found a dark tunnel leading to the ancient city of Elengubu, known now as Derinkuyu. Instead of keeping it quiet and moving into his own private underground city, the man decided to tell everyone and the archeologists took over. Here are a few pics of what they found:
Inside the subterranean city, researchers found 18 levels of tunnels containing dwellings, dry food storage, cattle stables, schools, wineries, and even a chapel. Amazingly, its entrances were connected to more than 600 private homes in the modern, surface-level region of Cappadocia.
The city was also equipped with a ventilation system that supplied its residents with fresh air and water. Here’s an artist’s rendering:
Amazing. Makes you wonder how many more of these underground ‘cities’ there could be and where they might be located. All I know is that if I ever found something like this through a hole in my wall I’m not telling anyone until I find all the treasure. Even then, might just turn it into the world’s biggest basement/man cave. Cosy.
For the Everest climber found hiding in a cave to avoid paying the £8,500 fee, click HERE.
