Underground cities in Turkey – Kaymakli and Derinkuyu
Real X-File ID: 711
Report Date: 07/22/2016
Country: Turkey
Place: Bayramlı, 50700 Derinkuyu/Nevşehir, Turkey
Fingerprints: Traces of ancient advanced engineering-skills, Traces of ancient advanced technology
Existing Facts Sources: Book
Summary Report:
Derinkuyu and Kaymakli are underground cities in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The underground cities and structures are carved out of unique geological formations. Derinkuyu and Kaymakli are just two of more than 50 underground cities connected by tunnels. Derinkuyu alone provided shelter for 20,000 people and all the underground cities together for about 1.5 million people.
The underground city at Derinkuyu could be closed from the inside with large rolling stone doors. Each floor could be closed off separately, like within a modern bunker today. The underground city at Kaymakli differs from Derinkuyu in terms of its structure and layout. The tunnels are lower, narrower, and more steeply inclined. Of the four floors open to tourists, each space is organized around ventilation shafts. This makes the design of each room or open space dependent on the availability of ventilation. With such a sophisticated architectural style, it could not have been a quick, improvised escape asylum.
During the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the city presumably served as a safe haven for refugees. In the second chapter of the Zoroastrian book Vendidad, reference is made to underground refuges built by the Persian king Yima. For this reason, many scholars believe that the city may have been built by the Persians.
In his Book “Neue Erkenntnisse”, Erich von Däniken writes: “… This underground world is a global world. This fact connects the mystery. People went underground or built megalithic shelters. In Asia, in South and North America, in Africa, in Europe. On Greek islands like Euboea or in the Mediterranean like Malta. The distant Asians knew nothing of the ancestors of the Turks, the Ecuadorians of South America nothing of the Chinese Empire. Something compelled people around the world to do the same. It must have been about protection…”.
Why was it necessary to flee into the underground? To seek protection from what or whom? And how was it, in such ancient times, possible to build such an elaborate underground city? How was the city planned and what tools were used for it s construction?
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Facts Source Details:
Details of Book: Neue Erkenntnisse, Beweise,Erich von Däniken,Kopp Verlag, Kopp Verlag,10/01/2018, 04/01/2015
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