We often wonder what ancient cities looked like, what buildings, walls, and colors did they feature. But rarely do we ask: ...

Above ground, the Cappadocia region is a UNESCO world ... Those passages opened up into rooms and halls, revealing an ancient underground city that had been lost to time and memory.

From the unusual natural scenery to its rock-hewn churches and frescos, discovering all of what Cappadocia has to offer is ...

In 1963, a man knocked down a wall in his home in Derinkuyu, Turkey, only to find something incredible on the other side. The ...

Turkey’s Derinkuyu, located in the Cappadocia region, is the largest excavated underground city in the world. Built across multiple centuries and carved deep into soft volcanic rock, it ...

The community would have been protected from the weather, and would be relatively easy to defend, depending on how the city was set up. Here are a few of the most prominent ancient underground cities ...

This is the underground city of Derinkuyu ... An upside-down world, many of Cappadocia's cities are subterranean, adorned with caves and hidden backstreets. Photograph by Jeremy Flint The oldest ...

These underground cities comprised connected tunnels and rooms that sheltered people from invading forces. Cappadocia is home to hundreds of underground cities, including famous ones like ...

Archaeologists stumbled upon the city-under-a-city "almost by chance ... Cappadocia in the center of the country. But while Cappadocia's underground cities are built with rooms vertically stacked ...

The rock fortress of Uchisar Castle stands at Cappadocia's highest point. (Bob Sessions) The next day we toured another subterranean site, the Kaymakli Underground City, a sprawling labyrinth that ...