Archinect - News 2024-12-23T08:00:04-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/117678057/turkish-development-unearths-giant-5-000-year-old-underground-city Turkish development unearths giant 5,000 year-old underground city Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-01-06T12:50:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1s/1s2o8idhmidqb30q.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The subterranean settlement was discovered in the Nev&#351;ehir province of Turkey&rsquo;s Central Anatolia region, in the historical area of Cappadocia. [...] the site, located around the Nev&#351;ehir hill fort near the city of Kayseri, appears to dwarf all other finds to date. [...] The agency has already spent 90 million Turkish liras (&pound;25m) on the development project, but the organisation&rsquo;s head said he did not see the money spent as a loss due to the magnitude of the historical discovery.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html> https://archinect.com/news/article/107671475/a-man-renovating-his-home-discovered-a-tunnel-to-a-massive-underground-city A Man Renovating His Home Discovered A Tunnel... To A Massive Underground City Orhan Ayyüce 2014-08-29T01:15:00-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/af/af52vhun87u4piz5.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In 1963, a man in the Nev&#351;ehir Province of Turkey knocked down a wall of his home. Behind it, he discovered a mysterious room and soon discovered an intricate tunnel system with additional cave-like rooms. What he had discovered was the ancient Derinkuyu underground city in Turkey</p></em><br /><br /><p>Pure interiors. Buildings with no roof and exterior.</p><p><em>Also see Aaron Locke's blog;&nbsp;</em><a href="http://archinect.com/blog/52627812/indo-inquisition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Indo Inquisition</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/blog/52627812/indo-inquisition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">13 weeks in India</a></p><p><em>the most pure form of subtractive architecture- <a href="http://archinect.com/blog/article/58917766/caves-of-ajanta" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">via</a></em></p>