Archaeologists Unearth More—A Lot More—Of Massive Underground City
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Subject: Archaeologists Unearth More—A Lot More—Of Massive Underground City Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:52 pm
Archaeologists Unearth More—A Lot More—Of Massive Underground City
In 2013, construction crews in the city of Nevşehir, in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, were demolishing low-income housing ringing a Byzantine castle when they unearthed something astonishing: entrances to a massive underground city. Dating to at least Byzantine times, the vast network of tunnels and rooms had been carved into volcanic ash rock called tuff that gives Cappadocia—famed for its otherworldly “fairy houses,” cave churches, and evocative geologic formations—its singular terrain…
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Thu Feb 11, 2016 9:52 pm
