In early 2024, an image shared on social media claimed that a man performing home renovations in Turkey discovered an ancient underground city. The claim had previously been shared on Reddit.

In 2014, a new and potentially even larger underground city was unearthed beneath the Nevsehir region. Derinkuyu's living story came to a close in 1923 when the Cappadocian Greeks evacuated.

After the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the city was abandoned ... cities along the Nevsehir–Nigde highway. Tunnels also link Derinkuyu to other underground cities in ...

Turkey’s Cappadocia region is famous ... since the soft tuff is prone to collapsing. “When the underground city beneath Nevşehir Castle is completely revealed,” he says, “it is almost ...

In 1963, a man in the Nevşehir Province of Turkey knocked down a wall in his basement and ended up discovering a gigantic underground city up to 18 stories deep, complete with chapels ...

Above ground, the Cappadocia region is a UNESCO world heritage site in Turkey that attracts millions ... revealing an ancient underground city that had been lost to time and memory.

A tourist walks through a passage in the Derinkuyu underground city, in Turkey's central Nevsehir province. (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR / AFP) The city was also equipped with a ventilation system ...

The accident occurred in Turkey's Cappadocia region, in Nevsehir province ... is famed for its "fairy chimney" rock-formations, underground cities and churches carved into mountainsides.