Derinkuyu Underground City underground city dating problem due to accessible upper levels. Derinkuyu Underground City is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places with the oldest layers being the easiest to access The site was reportedly discovered when a homeowner knocked a hole in his basement wall Cooking evidence and smoke vents extend up into the earth at the site
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Key Facts
- Derinkuyu Underground City is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places with the oldest layers being the easiest to access
- The site was reportedly discovered when a homeowner knocked a hole in his basement wall
- Cooking evidence and smoke vents extend up into the earth at the site
- Age estimates are based on artifacts found in the cave, but the top layers have been picked clean by visitors
- Byzantine Christian artifacts found in upper layers are mistakenly used to date the entire site
- The soft stone could theoretically have been excavated by hominids with simple tools potentially going back 100,000+ years
- The site could theoretically hold 20,000 people as a restart-civilization shelter
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