It is still largely unexplored, but initial studies suggest its size and features may rival those of Derinkuyu, the largest excavated underground city in Cappadocia, which could house 20,000 people.

While Derinkuyu's construction was indeed ingenious, it's not the only underground city in Cappadocia. At 445 sq km, it's merely the largest of the 200 and counting underground cities beneath the ...

Derinkuyu, burrowed more than 280 feet beneath the Central Anatolian region of Cappadocia, is the largest excavated underground city in the world and is believed to connect to more than 200 ...

Derinkuyu is an 18-level underground city in Cappadocia. It reaches 280 feet below the Earth's surface at its deepest point. Source: BBC Cappadocia is a particularly good place for underground ...

Located in Cappadocia near the center of Turkey, Derinkuyu is an ancient marvel with a rich history and significant archaeological importance. The sprawling underground city is believed to have ...

Above ground, the Cappadocia region is a UNESCO world ... Those passages opened up into rooms and halls, revealing an ancient underground city that had been lost to time and memory.

Archaeologists stumbled upon the city-under-a-city "almost by chance ... Cappadocia in the center of the country. But while Cappadocia's underground cities are built with rooms vertically stacked ...

Cappadocia is uniquely suited to this kind of underground construction due to the lack of water in the soil and its malleable, easily mouldable rock However, the bulk of the city was likely built ...