Underground cave-city found

[Mikail2730]

Hello everyone.
Approxematly 9 months ago (in July) my family and I went on a vacation to Turkey. During our visit we went to the mountains where we found an enormus hidden cave. The entrance had man made "doors/openings", window like holes, and both big and small tunnels. We went about 200 meters inside the tunnels were we saw atleast 5-10+ rooms before we decided to head back. On top of the "door"-openings some type of script is carved into the mountain.
I hope some of you have some expertise within this subject, and that you can help me finding out what era this cave is from, and some other things.
Next year I will make sure to go inside the rooms and look for possible "treasures" .
The cave is located in the Anatolia region of Turkey. Thank you.

(IMPORTANT: a few kilometers away from this cave a tall hill/mountain is located, on top of that mountain we found some "weird" shapes, in what i believe is marble, does Anyone have any idea what it is?)

 

[jeff of pa]

cool find

in this day & Age I would be Surprised if you are the First Though.

Either way

 

[oldsilver]

looks like family burials to me. May be the next form here could be... "Far east Archaeology"

 

[trapperart]

Very neat

 

[huntsman53]

I agree that it is likely that others and probably many others have visited the caves which appear hand-carved! As previously stated, they are likely burial places (i.e. sepulchers or crypts) which may have been emptied out and abandoned hundreds of years ago. Any possible treasures were also likely taken by grave robbers long ago as well. The other location with the marble was likely a temple or at the least, a place of worship during ancient times.


Frank

 

[Mikail2730]

Thank you very much everyone!
I thought it was burial places aswell, an archaeologist from Istanbul also gave us a visit and estimated that the caves were around 5000-10.000 years old, but she was not 100% sure, but either ways thank you.
Feel free to post new replies, all new knowledge is appreciated.
And we only have evidence that the cave was visited in 1974, all the garbage is ours (we cleaned up afterwards)

 

[Mikail2730]

The only thing that makes me think its an underground city is that its as big as it is, and that the carving of the tunnels are innefable. There were also holes in the walls inside the "cave" like the 3 small ones you can see on the last picture. Besides that also some sort of sewer system, and fireplaces were present.

 

[villagenut]

From the looks of the well beaten ground near the cave entrance in your pics, I would say it is a very frequented place with pathways worn into the ground.

 

[kleinerschmitter]

I was in Cappadocia in central turkey 11 months ago. We saw a major underground city that has been formed in between the 12th and 18th century BC for the persians to get away from invading Hittites. It had miles of tunnels and a church even underground. The Persians had of course had a lot of experience building houses into chimney rock formations by that time and into Cliff sides. Before Islam came to the region and 1071 A.D., the area had early displays of Christianity begin in the fourth century and lasted until the 11th century it was actually a major source of Christian ideology back in the fourth century.

 

[against the wind]

Cool story,, are you going to revisit that site with a metal detector?

 

[FFFPatriot]

"Wheew!!" You sure were lucky that you didn't come across these people in those caves!

 

[Mikail2730]

Yes next time I will return with a metal detector and a drone built for cave-exploring.

 

[Relicific]

So much history there.
Lucky guy

 

[Overseas]

MY EXPERIENCE THERE is treat the children nice and well. Bring snacks, money, fun and interesting things.

The children are small and can get into places (some of which have collapsed) and find things adults would normally not find on there own. So yes, others have been there before and it is at least the children

My belief is there is a lot of treasure in Turkey, but do not think someone is not watching you trying to leave that area or even the country with it.

They punish severely there...just google the guy that was picking up rocks on the beach and tried to take one home.

 

[Overseas]

The only thing that makes me think its an underground city is that its as big as it is, and that the carving of the tunnels are innefable. There were also holes in the walls inside the "cave" like the 3 small ones you can see on the last picture. Besides that also some sort of sewer system, and fireplaces were present.

Are you aware that in some parts of Turkey they discovered cities with several different stories below the ground and interconnected?

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice story, thank you for sharing!

 

[Mikail2730]

I am not trying to bring something home.
We have our own local museum there in my native city, and if I find anything (which I doubt) I will deliver them to the museum.

 

[Mikail2730]

Yes! These caves are not just caves they are cities. A new team of archaelologists went deeper into the cave, and found out that is atleast 3 floors big. There is literally stairs in there, big rooms, several doors leading to new doors and rooms erc.

 

[sutphin]

WELL DONE NEW MEMBER AND WELCOME

 

[Trezurehunter]

Sounds like it was a great adventure.