Derinkuyu: The City Built to Hide (duplicated)

They didn’t build this city to live in. They built it to hide.

Deep beneath the surface of modern-day Turkey lies Derinkuyu — an underground city

designed to conceal more than twenty thousand people. This wasn’t a cave. It wasn’t a shelter.

It was a fully engineered city. With homes, schools, food storage rooms,

water wells, and ventilation shafts that still work today. Entire generations

lived here without ever seeing the sun. Children were born underground.

People studied, prayed, worked… and died underground. The tunnels were

built narrow on purpose. Every turn slowed intruders. Massive stone doors