5,000 year old underground city thought to be the largest in the world discovered in the historical area of Cappadocia ,central Turkey.The site located around the Nevsehirhill fort near the city of Kayseri,appears small all other to find.
Mehmet Ergun Turan, head of turkey’s housing development administration ,said the discovery was madeduring ground work for a housing project.”it is not a known under ground city.tunnel passages of 7 kilometers are being discussed.We stopped the construction w were planning when an underground city was discovered”,Turan told a Turkish publication.
Nevsehir’s most renowned underground settlement is Derinkuyu,a multi level ciytylarge enough to house thousands and their live stock.Derinkuyu, believed to date to the 8th century BC, was most recently inhabited by Christians until 1923 when they were expelled during a population exchange with Greece.