Cappadocia is a strange area where entire cities have been carved into the rock, a land of vicissitudes that resembles an abandoned alien desert, and did you know that beneath the surface of Cappadocia in Turkey, there is a great miracle that has been hidden for centuries before being discovered: that is, there is an underground city in this city!Here, up to 20,000 inhabitants can be hidden from being discovered for months. It's a lot like the feeling of a dungeon where everyone lives on the Wandering Earth, and this is the ancient city of Ehrengub in Cappadocia, which is now also called Derinkuyu.
The underground city is buried 85 meters below the surface and has 18 levels of tunnels. It is the largest underground city excavated in the world, and magically it has been in use almost for thousands of years, but few people know about it, almost a top-secret city. The cavernous chambers stretch for hundreds of miles, and there are even more than 200 small, self-contained underground cities, forming a vast underground network that is simply breathtaking.
And it is very storytelling that this underground city was not "rediscovered" until 1963 by an unknown local, because his chickens were always lost, and after further investigation and excavation, it was discovered that his house was connected to a dark passage, and when he continued to excavate, it was discovered that this passage was also connected to many underground dwellings, dry food warehouses, cattle sheds, schools, wineries, and even a church.
What a discovery that shocked the world!It is equivalent to saying that a part of Turkey's ancient civilization history is secretly hidden underground. By 1985, the area was also added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Now, as tourists, we only need to spend 60 Turkish lira to explore the mysteries of this underground city, and I feel that if you go to Turkey, it is still worth a visit!