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This is unbelievable! 70,000 people?!

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And it has hundred of entrances and they just found it.

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I find underground caverns to be very beautiful.

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these were dug out of volcanic rock and they also have surface use of the rock. They even had ventilation shafts.

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Where did they get their food and water? And how did they get rid of waste? This discovery raises a lot of questions. It seems as though inhabitants must have spent a lot of time outside of the underground housing.

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I found a lot of articles about these cities (there are older ones) and it seems like they have a number of entrances and also large stones to cover the major ones and places to drop boiling oil on invaders. Most of the detailed articles were in Turkish, of course, so maybe some of them delved into the--I AGREE!--interesting logistics of day-to-day living.

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