The incredible thousand-year-old UNDERGROUND 18-floored city

World News Rudolph Rodriquez
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The mysterious location could house 20,000 people and was discovered by chance when a man was doing DIY on his house in Turkey

During what was a simple improvement to his home, a Turkish man discovered, in 1963, a marvelous buried secret.

When he knocked down a wall in his cellar, he found a secret room with a door to an underground tunnel which was the way into the ancient hidden city Derinkuyu.

Studies of the discovery showed that 20,000 with food supplies and livestock could have easily lived in the 18 floors beneath the earth.

Believed to have been constructed in the Byzantine era around 780-1180AD, the city is a network of kitchens, stables, churches, tombs, wells, communal rooms and schools, which was most likely intended to be a bunker to protect the people from the Arab-Byzantine wars or natural disasters.

The city has around 600 entrances for people to leave or enter as they please and also cave chapels and Greek inscriptions were added.

In case of emergency the entrances were sealed off with heavy stone doors to keep the danger away and each floor could be shut off individually.

Even though Derinkuyu isn’t the only city of this kind, it is one of the largest underground cities. The hidden city is linked to other smaller cities by a network of underground tunnels that span several miles.

So far only 50 percent of the city can be explored, but it quickly became a popular tourist attraction in Cappadocia.