Underground city found under illegally excavated house.PHOTO: DHA
Posted on 10/09/2023 10:21:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Upon the information that illegal excavations were carried out in a house in the İscehisar district of Afyonkarahisar in western Turkey, the teams raided the house and found that the determined that illegal diggers had uncovered an underground city under the house.
According to the news of Ali Fuat Güçlü from DHA; Police raided a house in the İscehisar district of Afyonkarahisar and detained 7 people who were digging illegally. It was stated that the suspects dug a tunnel under the house and uncovered the underground city where historical artifacts and columns were found.
The teams of Afyonkarahisar Police Department Anti-Smuggling and Organized Crime Branch Directorate determined that illegal excavations were carried out in a house in İscehisar in order to find historical artifacts, as part of the studies aimed at deciphering smuggling crimes...
During the research at the house, the teams determined that there was a transition from the window part to the outbuilding, that there was a pit with a diameter of about 3 meters, and that there was a columned historical tunnel inside. In the tunnel where the columns are located, historical objects such as inscriptions, statues, and sarcophagi, hidden behind sacks, were found...
The suspects were taken into custody for judicial proceedings within the scope of the Law on the Protection of Cultural and Natural Assets.
(Excerpt) Read more at arkeonews.net ...
Underground city found under illegally excavated house.PHOTO: DHA
The short answer is: dust, dead plants, and debris.Why Ancient Rome is Buried | 3:50
toldinstone | 424K subscribers | 626,372 views | June 1, 2021
Transcript 0:00 · I'm Garrett Ryan, and this 0:04 · is the short answer. Today's question is: "Why is Ancient Rome buried?" 0:12 · As everybody knows, ancient Rome is deep underground. 0:17 · Take, for example, the Curia in the Forum, an ancient building converted into a church in 0:22 · late antiquity. By the middle ages, the ground level had risen so much 0:28 · that a new door had to be cut into the wall, ten feet or three meters above the original. 0:35 · The ground level continued to rise, and during the Renaissance 0:39 · another door had to be cut, this time more than 20 feet, or 6 meters, above the ancient pavement. 0:46 · The difference between ancient and later ground levels is equally obvious 0:50 · in the nearby Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, where the door of the church that was built 0:55 · into the temple during the Renaissance is two stories above the ancient street. 1:00 · So where did all that soil come from? 1:04 · One humble but hardworking cause was windblown dust and weeds. 1:09 · In a temperate climate like Rome's, plants take root on the roofs and walls of untended buildings. 1:16 · If you look at a modern building that's been abandoned for a couple decades, 1:20 · like Detroit's Packard Plant, which is shown here, you can already see vegetation – and even 1:24 · full-size trees – sprouting from every surface. Before they were cleaned in the nineteenth 1:30 · century, Rome's ruins had similar rooftop forests, as this painting of the Colosseum illustrates. 1:38 · The soil produced by the lives and deaths of these urban jungles built up slowly but 1:42 · steadily - under favorable conditions, perhaps an inch or a couple centimeters every century. 1:48 · Plants, however, accounted only for a small fraction of the rise in Rome's street level. 1:54 · Until the Tiber embankments were constructed in the nineteenth century, Rome was prone to 1:59 · serious floods, which sometimes rose as high as 15 feet or five meters above the street level in 2:05 · the vicinity of the Pantheon. When the water receded, it often left thick layers of silt. 2:13 · Built-up trash also contributed to the rise of Rome's streets. 2:18 · Far and away the greatest culprit, however, was debris from ruined buildings. 2:24 · In a typical Roman apartment building, three or four stories tall, the outer walls were 2:28 · brick-faced concrete and the roof was tiled. But almost all the rest was wood. Once the building 2:35 · was abandoned, all that wood decayed, creating a waist-deep heap inside the masonry shell. 2:39 · And once rain and frost weakened the mortar, and earthquakes brought the walls crashing down, 2:44 · there would be a grass-covered mound, a story or so tall, on the site of our apartment building. 2:50 · In the case of a large building, that mound might be the size of a hill. The medieval 2:56 · inhabitants of Rome scavenged bits of stone from these piles, but they had no use for broken tile 3:02 · or hunks of concrete. So they simply ignored the rubble, or levelled it and built on top of it. 3:10 · And that, my friends, is the short answer: Rome was buried by its own rubble and trash, 3:15 · by river mud, and by a little bit…of dust in the wind. 3:21 · If you have a question about the Greeks and Romans that you'd like to have answered in a few minutes, 3:25 · please let me know in the comments or email me at toldinstone@gmail 3:28 · In the meantime, stay tuned for my longer videos, which publish on Fridays, and thanks for watching.
Turkey has been around long before Biblical times were recorded. One pictures the molten earth still cooling, still softly bubbling along with the appearance of the first colonies of nomadic Turkish Tribes. Heaven only knows what lies buried beneath the sandy surface, patiently waiting to shock and awe the observer.
It is stunning the stuff that is found under existing cities. Can’t remember where but a story of a man selling fish, they discovered that he had found a passage to a subterranean lake under a modern city. If I remember correctly basically a valley was covered over by romans to have a city with water supply underneath. The pictures were amazing large pieces of carved statues and anything else the Roman’s could find to support the area above was used
Another point it is amazing how even relatively recent events understanding of what happened often turns out to be untrue
There is a show where folks go to battle fields ( the one I watched was on Gettysburg)and by metal detecting bullets noth used and unused were able to reconstruct battle positions and they don’t agree in many instances with recorded history
Was Spain and there was a discovered Roman settlement on a hill it was occupied to somewhere around the 700s yet was unknown till a few decades ago, walking down a cleared section of a road i got to where they had stopped excavation and there was 10-12 feet of earth and debris covering the road.
How does that much stuff accumulate esp on a hill top in such a relatively short time?
What is out there yet to be discovered I imagine is breathtaking
, perhaps an inch or a couple centimeters every century.
Thats only about a 15” or so, then, in 1500yrs. Certainly not 20’. It is also noted that the Pantheon remains at its ancient level.
I thought he kinda missed the mark on this one.
The archaeological finds on that land between the Black Sea and Western Med go incredibly deep.
Oops, Eastern Med.
That might be because it probably was built on a rock foundation. Where I live in Middle Tennessee, a lot of land you can find rock about a foot or two below the ground level. It is rare to find houses with basements in them unless they are built on those rare to find spots where you can dig deep enough for a basement with out finding rock.
The Pantheon has been in continuous use, first as a Roman temple (built in the time of Hadrian on the site of Agrippa’s), so, not the same thing.
The Turks came out of Central Asia about 500 years ago.
From the Big Picture perspective of anthropologic history; 500 years is like saying 11 months ago.
Is this a translation from Yourecrapistan or did AI write it?
Well, I am no expert for sure but the area around the Pantheon appears to be at or near its ancient level and that is despite the flooding that has occurred. Flooding that he contends helped to bury the rest of the city ruins.
The back side of the Pantheon has an arch or butress from an old bath and the right side of the Pantheon[viewed from the front] has a pretty clear view of the foundation itself.
There is also a temple to Hadrian, I think it is, on one of the walks to the Trevi fountain which is nearly at street level.
I guess I am wondering if the over burden of the more modern buildings is not the major cause of the depth of burial of the old sites. It is row after row of connected buildings constructed from the fall of Rome to modern day on street after street in the central storico. Seems to me that dirt had to go somewhere.
As I said, it’s been in constant use. Other parts of Rome got buried. One of the Renaissance-era artists tried to excavate a basement under his house and rather shortly hit a large flat stone surface. He excavated out to the edges, then around the stone. It turned out to be the capital of a still-standing Roman-era column, and much of the rest of the structure was intact.
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