Support Us On Patreon: www.patreon.com/MysteryHistory We Are Also On Steemit: steemit.com/@mysteryhistory The underground cities of Cappadocia, Turkey, number more than 200 and are spread across the entire region. It is highly possible that there is many more lying below the surface, just waiting to be found. Of all the underground cities discovered so far, the most awe-inspiring is perhaps the Derinkuyu city. It was discovered by accident in 1963 when a local family was renovating a house, a wall gave way to reveal a passage that led to this underground network. according to National Geographic, It is 11 levels deep, descending more than 280 feet into the bedrock, covering an area of over 4 miles squared. It included temples, tombs, shops, living quarters, and even livestock pens. Over 15,000 air shafts were built into its design, and would have been enough room to comfortably house approximately 20,000 people. The underground city has extending passages that connected to other, neighbouring and underground water well systems providing fresh water. What is especially interesting regarding this underground world, is the evidence to suggest that they were hiding from something terrifying. A sophisticated security system, consisting of a particular build design, accompanied by numerous gigantic rolling stone blocking doors, that would seal the city from the inside, Moreover, its multi layered design, meant that each level could be sealed off from the next level using this same system. Just what were these people hiding from? Whatever it was they obviously preferred to run rather than confront it… The structure was excruciatingly carved into the underground rock, and is as strong today as the day it was built, safely accommodating guests such as archaeologists and tourists. Whoever built the network, obviously had an advanced knowledge of stone working, architecture, engineering, and the local geography. Ageing the structure has proven very difficult, there are no existing quarries, waste piles, or tools to examine. Furthermore, there are no records documenting its construction, or people who may have lived there. Also, unfortunately, many cultures have used the underground towns over the centuries. According to UNESCO, “It is believed that the first signs of monastic activity in Cappadocia date back to the 4th century, at which time acting on the instructions of Basil the Great, in order to resist attacks from the Arabs, the people should band together into small local communities and begin inhabiting cells dug into the rock. Therefore, modern academia tends to conclude that they were likely built by the Phrygian people, around 800 B.C. Yet it is also a strong possibility that they are far older than this, by the Bishops instruction they are to inhabit, not build, therefore its safe to assume he was aware of their existence, rather than the person who thought them up. Some believe the underground caves were constructed by the very ancient Persian King Yima. Yima attributed as mythological by many, is said to have had a lifespan of more than 900 years, a common feature of Biblical figures as well. The Zoroastrian text “Vendidad” states that Yima built an underground city on the orders of the god Ahura Mazda, to protect his people from a catastrophic winter. Much like the account of Noah in the Bible, Yima was instructed to collect pairs of the best animals and people as well as the best seeds in order to reseed the Earth after the winter cataclysm. However, if this was ever proven to be actually true, then it places its construction in remote prehistory, before the last ice age, 110,000 years ago.

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