What Was Derinkuyu? The Underground City That Hid 20,000 People

Get our medieval cookbooks with 12 authentic bread recipes + the full sourdough manual here: https://medievalway.store/ In 1963, a man in central Turkey lost his chickens. They kept slipping through a crack at the back of his cellar and never coming back. When he finally knocked the wall open to look for them, the crack turned into a passage. The passage turned into a stairway. The stairway went down into the dark, past one carved room, then another, then another. Beneath his ordinary house, in the town of Derinkuyu, sat a city. A city, cut straight down into solid rock, as deep as an eighteen-story building driven into the earth instead of into the sky. Roughly eighty-five meters below the surface. Room enough for twenty thousand people and all their animals.