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Anne CHAON

FOUND: Ancient secrets unearthed in vast turkish cave city - You Need To See This

People are thought to have taken refuge from enemies in the caves (Credit: AFP)

Through a basement door in southeastern Turkey lies a sprawling underground city -- perhaps the country's largest -- which one historian believes dates back to the ninth century before Jesus Christ.

Archaeologists stumbled upon the city-under-a-city "almost by chance" after an excavation of house cellars in Midyat, near the Syrian border, led to the discovery of a vast labyrinth of caves in 2020.

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