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In what year did the outside world first learn of Derinkuyu, Turkey's massive underground city?
Answer
1963
A local resident renovating his home in Cappadocia knocked through a wall in 1963 and discovered a hidden passage leading into the vast, previously unknown underground complex.
💡 Did you know?
Derinkuyu, Turkey's eight-story underground city, could shelter 20,000 people and remained completely unknown to the outside world until 1963.
Other options people guess
- 1923
- 1950
- 1975
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- turkey
- cappadocia
- underground-city
- discovery
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