FOXNEWS: Türkiye’de devasa yeraltı şehri kazara keşfedildi

Türkiye’nin Nevşehir kentinde büyük bir yer altı şehri, inşaat kazısında meydana gelen kaza sonucu keşfedildi. Hurriyet Daily News’in haberine göre bu, yılın en büyük keşfi olma potansiyelini taşıyor.

National Geographic’in söylediğine göre yeraltı şehrinin tarihi 5000 yıl öncesine kadar uzanabilir.

Uzmanlar şehrin tahmini kapasitesinin 20 bin kişi olduğunu ifade ediyor.

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Huge underground city discovered in Turkey–by accident

It’s a stunning find uncovered by accident: Construction workers demolishing homes in Turkey’s Nevsehir province in 2013 ended up discovering entrances to what could be the largest ancient underground city ever found in the region.

The country’s Hurriyet Daily News reported on its existence just days before the end of 2014, calling it “potentially the year’s biggest” such discovery. “Tunnel passages of seven kilometers are being discussed,” said a construction official at the time.

And while the precise size isn’t yet know, an estimate from geophysicists now puts it at about 5 million square feet and extending as far as 371 feet below ground.

National Geographic reports that would make it roughly 30% larger than Derinkuyu, the largest excavated underground city found in the historical Cappadocia region so far; Derinkuyu’s capacity is thought to be 20,000 people.

The retreat, carved from soft ash rock as many as 5,000 years ago, would have been used in case of invaders; artifacts found at the site suggest its occupation stretched through the Ottoman conquest, says National Geographic.

The multi-level complex was a developed one, complete with staircases, kitchens, wineries, chapels, grindstones, air shafts, water channels, corridors, and even lamp-oil presses. (Derinkuyu was 18 stories, notes the Washington Post, and also included stores and escape routes.) The city’s current mayor wants to build walking trails and a museum showcasing the underground spectacle and even “re-open the underground churches,” he says—though, for now, even further exploration is risky.

As such, the Daily News reports a geo-radar machine is being used to gather information that’s then handed to the excavators. (Also recently found underground: a secret Nazi factory.)

Kaynak: Foxnews

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/03/28/huge-underground-city-discovered-in-turkey-by-accident/

FOXNEWS: Türkiye’de devasa yeraltı şehri kazara keşfedildi

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