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Derinkuyu: Mysterious underground city in Turkey found in man’s basement
- jzellis 4y agoA strange and beautiful place. I was last there in 2007, I think it was, but I first visited as a kid in 1987. Cappadocia is one of my favorite places on earth. <3
- hot_gril 4y agoThe above-ground landscape reminds me of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
- hkc 4y agoI was just watching Colin Furze's Underground Tunnel series hah! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGjbAdaOBLBlS1MPKXYmqwZLZhWC1FAMx https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGjbAdaOBLBlS1MPKXYmq...
- sleightofmind 4y agoThere are two types of people in this world (well, at least two): Those who dream of underground living spaces or secret hideouts/tunnels, and those who don't. Count me among the former. Thanks for the link!
- jhartwig 4y agoPretty cool project, the funniest thing was him not doing any research regarding permits in advance... yikes.
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- Aromasin 4y agoIf it goes so deep underground, how did people not eventually suffocate with the lack of ventilation?
- howthisends 4y agoWhen shut off from the world above, the city was ventilated by a total of more than 15,000 shafts, most about 10 cm wide and reaching down into the first and second levels of the city. This ensured sufficient ventilation down to the eighth level.
- mrcheesebreeze 4y agothats so cool
- 4gotunameagain 4y agowould connecting the ventilation shafts exclusively on the lower levels create some kind of draft ?
- woleium 4y agoI imagine the lower relative temperature of the well shafts would cause cool fresh air to sink, and the heated (by humans and animals) stale air would rise up and escape via the mentioned shafts, much like a traditional passive heating system in an old house. As long as the area doesn't get too humid (unlikely in that area) then the latent heat of evaporation would generate more than enough temperature delta to setup quite strong air currents, more than enough to keep the air fresh in the caves
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoIn my fantasy imagination of alternative history, this is evidence of an ancient civilization surviving a nuclear winter involving the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah.
- johnnymorgan 4y agoI'd watch that movie!
- petesergeant 4y agoCappadocia is a fine place to visit, but honestly visiting Derinkuyu was not a highlight. If you see the photo half-way down the article, it basically all looks like that, and it's much cooler to know it exists than to actually see it in person.
- bergenty 4y agoThat looks… very cool? That’s exactly what I was expecting.
- devoutsalsa 4y agoTurkey has tons of off the beaten path sites to see that are not as touristy. There are underground cities that are completely open to visit. You drive up and there’s just a dark hole in the side of a hill, such as Han near Afyon… Han Underground City https://goo.gl/maps/rDn2MMQPy7qF2Vhe9 https://goo.gl/maps/rDn2MMQPy7qF2Vhe9
- hrayn3 4y agoI thought the opposite - the underground city was the highlight of my trip to Turkey! Being down where people have walked for thousands of years, imagining the living conditions and what would make people do such a thing (e.g. retreat for decades to hide from an occupying force), was incredible. Sure, visually it's just holes in rocks - but so are a lot of other things worth seeing too.