Exploring Turkey’s ancient underground city - BBC News
Close to the border with Syria, Midyat in Turkey has been home to many civilizations over the last 3,000 years.
Excavation teams recently discovered a vast underground network of caves and passages forming an underground city, thought to be almost 2,000 years old.
Valuables dating back to Roman times were found in the dig, including candlesticks, coins and bracelets.
It’s believed the city was used as a space to work, store, sleep and worship in times of war, and would've been inhabited by 70,000 people.
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Fascinating.1,900 years old and you are there with the reporter,exploring ...
@kishascape
Жыл бұрын
Except he’s stupid because it wasn’t “connected basements” as he says. Also these were discovered in the 1960s.
So fascinating. And yet my claustrophobia would never allow me to tour in person. Maybe I was trapped in such world in a previous life.
@kathleenmann7311
Жыл бұрын
👍🤫😀 (Me, too)
@o3MTA3o
Жыл бұрын
Nah. I say I come from plains people. We didn't hang out in small spaces which is why I can't handle them now.
@jonathanmartin998
Жыл бұрын
Reincarnation is a hoax
@damenwhelan3236
6 ай бұрын
My scientific brain wpuld be telling me :there are no faults or cracks. The soft stone has not moved for a thousand years, and it will not move for 10 thousand more. My monkey brain: Get out now!!
@Bandobenz18
Ай бұрын
Lmao that probably wasn’t even a thing back then… how blessed we are.
I love this presenters excitement
I can't wait to see this wonderful place!!
Amazing. Thanks for sending a camera crew down there.
On my bucket list now
Thanks for this 👍
So much of this footage was of the guy’s high-vis jacket and close ups of people’s faces that I just don’t care about. Such a shame that we didn’t see even more footage of the rooms themselves.
The subtitles cannot be seen when viewed fullscreen on an iPhone 15
@1:20 that was such a Nick Frost moment for the presenter. 😂
Thanks
a whole city underground sounds incredible. I wonder how they dealt with sewage, the need for fresh water, fuel for lighting up the interiors, ventilation for all the carbon dioxide from people, animals and fires, and so many other small things that would become much more difficult if you lived underground. On top of that, how did they grow their food? It couldn't have been a permanent settlement of much size because those considerations would make it too difficult to stay there for long. The biggest question is probably how they lit up the place. We have lights that are bright and can run indefinitely with electricity, but back then, you had to use candles or oil lamps, and those aren't all that bright. Imagine how much fuel it would take to light up the place. candles aren't cheap, and neither is oil, especially if you are going to use it to illuminate thousands of lamps for extended periods of time. Not only that, you now need to keep the place lit throughout the day and night. If they go out, you are stuck in pitch black darkness. There was no convenient lighter you could pull out of your pocket so you could catch your bearings. Instead you had to fumble around until you found a candle or lamp, hope you didn't knock it over, then find your fire starting kit, strike an ember, use that to light some tinder, then light the lamp- all in darkness. So they would need some way to ensure that the lights never went out or they would all be screwed.
stunning
You must see Meymand in Kerman That village has about 10000 years old and belonged to ancient people
@donttellmejustlisten4598
7 ай бұрын
So the main question is who build it Muslims?? Or christians build it ??
Waau awesome. Can grow food underground also, with mirroring sun light to use. We doing shielded food growth. They created tools to underground caves material handling. Show also the tools they made caves spaces with !!
الرئيس التركي 🇹🇷: مصممون على تأمين خط الحدود بشكل كامل وجعل كل شبر من بلدنا آمنا. ─ 🇹🇷 الجزيرة - تركيا 🇶🇦 🤔
Wow!
صباح الخير من مدينة سيفاس التركية 🇹🇷 حيث أعلن الخباز التركي علي يلديز عبر لافتة علقها على باب مخبزه أنه سيبيع الخبز والسميت والبوتشه (نوع من المعجنات التركية) بليرتين فقط ولذلك أملا في أن يدعو له الزبائن بالخير وكتب يلديز على اللافتة التي علقها بجانب باب محله "الخبز والسميت والبوتشه بـ 2.00 ليرة.. لا يؤثم من يسرق رغيف خبز (بسبب الجوع)، لكن يؤثم من لا يشارك ألف قطعة خبز (يمتلكها)" ─ 🇹🇷 الجزيرة - تركيا 🇶🇦 🤔
@tk5gqj514
Жыл бұрын
Why are you writing in arabic
@Uthman_al_shammy
3 ай бұрын
Ma shaa Allah 😊
@Uthman_al_shammy
3 ай бұрын
@@tk5gqj514because blessing hidden in plain sight. Too bad your heart is blind to see.
Hi @bbc one correction in 3:46 he says 350 thousand square meters not 350
@nba1942
Жыл бұрын
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@silentsir2446
Ай бұрын
I was thinking: damn, I should HOPE it ends up being bigger than 350 meters. 😅
Is this the actual location for the movie As Above, So Below? I know it should have been the catacombs but man this could have been the underground shown in the movie.
As a turk everyone would like to watch like those videos bless you BBC
Midyat'ta mağarada başlayan kazı, devasa bir yer altı şehrine doğru ilerliyor The excavation, which started in a cave in Midyat, moves towards a huge underground city kzread.info/dash/bejne/fZ2TmNOMpJCoeZM.html
Given my surname, I now consider this to be my second home. 😀
@donttellmejustlisten4598
7 ай бұрын
Lol same here not just the surname , even the first name is present in our language Ashura means bad/monsters and our people were described as ashur in history (BC period ) so it makes perfect sense for the kings name and we people (according to history) are migrants from iran and other close by areas to india 😂 so it makes double sense
@user-io7sh7nx7c
3 ай бұрын
@@donttellmejustlisten4598Asura means demons in Vedic religion too
How is it so weathered from being underground??
The have made incredible thing, Dont have technic
Isn't this weird? BBC news has over 13 million subscribers and only 110k people watched this?
Oh gosh, how many of these places they have in Turkey actually?
anyone know the name of the Journalist?
Why is there such little soot on the ceiling?
The first picture reminds me of katie price for some reason.
Ruhi did the exploring last year so yeah you are late but thanks though
Could this place be where the Hebrews hid and settled while they were wondering in the desert for 40 years after the Exodus?
Even the present city looks old
I wonder where they did 1 & 2 ,n bathing....
The host looks like a middle eastern Steve Wozniak
Why is he scratching walls that's 2000 years old?
@Leo-gt1bx
2 ай бұрын
Crabs
@edgectmrai7733
Ай бұрын
@@Leo-gt1bx Exactly.
woooo khaya atour ! assyrian forever
They didn't have the technology we have today but they were very talented and clever
@superwoman8785
Жыл бұрын
@@punkinhoot people today have everything but still dumb
@underarmbowlingincidentof1981
Жыл бұрын
@@punkinhoot we are literally constructing particle colliders and have built networks of information... just our most basic geographical surveying technology is a masterminds dream. back in the day most people worked on the farm or in some shop and that's the same it is today. Only because we have refined tools for the basic stuff doesn't mean the complex stuff isn't difficult. Your comment is anti-progress... which means you are either some extreme anti-accelerationists or a naturalist of the highest degree... both prospects disgust me bruh
@5000mahmud
Жыл бұрын
@@punkinhoot can you do that?
@davidhollywood448
7 ай бұрын
Maybe they did have technology, maybe its lost, maybe their technology went in a different path than ours did.
Anyone else cringe at him scratching and messing up the surfaces?
Must have been fun getting rid of waste(human,animal and other garbage) must of stunk in there. And no sunlight=no vitamin D. How did the live for years without it?
its not a BBC documentary until you dont hear the typical background music they play for every middle eastern country
Turkey is full of ancient Greek buildings and Roman
وكان يلديز قد علق لافتة مشابهة العام الماضي بعد أن باع الخبز بسعر مخفض وأخبره الزبائن أنهم يدعون لأجله كثيرا، ما دفعه ليعلن أنه سيقدم 5 آلاف خبزة مجانا، وكتب يلديز على اللافتة "ليس هناك جيب في الكفن! نحصل على أموال من البعض وعلى دعوات طيبة من البعض الآخر.. الخبز مجاني اليوم". ─ 🇹🇷 الجزيرة - تركيا 🇶🇦 🤔
Rome was 2000 years ahead of everybody else up until its destruction. Its fall brought about the dark ages and a lost 1500 years. The world we live in today is basically a type of less violent Rome with pretty much the same infrastructure both politically and economically
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would love to see how their eyesight was compared to ours
Any one els watched the Netflix series and find it stupid there only saying there around 1900 years old when they have proof there much older than that!
This shows the power humans could have if everyone got off there phone’s
@snapkrr
6 ай бұрын
Why do you think phones exist
I love travel to Turkey
Reporter has to stop scratching the walls …
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1,900 years what proof???
How did they grow food underground and not get rickets? They must have come up now and then to grow food and get well.
@tux_duh
3 ай бұрын
They weren't constantly underground.... They used it to be safe from sieges during the unrest of the Byzantine empire
@carolinemacrae6227
3 ай бұрын
@@tux_duh how long would that go on for. Was it over something like 100 years. Because that is a lot of work, as if it's going to be worth it if it lasts on and off for about a century.
@Leo-gt1bx
2 ай бұрын
@@tux_duhlol
Pretty terrible camera work and/or editing choices! Mostly extended shots of people's faces, people's backs, closeups of brooms sweeping, inappropriate use of shallow depth of field, etc etc
Broaden the horizons
المعطيات الرسمية بينت أن كمية البندق التي صدرتها تركيا خلال الأشهر العشرة الأولى من 2022 بلغت 239 ألفا و934 طنا وأنها وصلت إلى 129 دولة ومنطقة حرة في العالم. ─ 🇹🇷 الجزيرة - تركيا 🇶🇦
Those guys trying to find something valuable turn out their didn’t found enough and tittle goes like : Exploring Turkeys….. should be «trying to stole ancient treasures from the old place »
It's very interesting... But.. ...where are the turkey's........?
@tux_duh
3 ай бұрын
The bird turkey was actually named after the country! Turkeys are native to the Americas
I wonder why they left?
That's just, like, WAY cool! 🤔😎🤘🏻 How much is the rent? 🤔🤣
@chan-xs6lu
Жыл бұрын
cheap probably
That's cool, hopefully some Syrians can go there and hide as there being attacked over the next few weeks
Pray for Turkey
Thanks to Turkey for hardwork
في عالمٍ يواجه سلسلة من الأزمات، من واجبنا الحفاظ على الروح الرياضية كونها مساحة لتقارب الشعوب حول القيم العالمية. تُقام بطولة كأس العالم في كرة القدم للمرة الأولى في المنطقة العربية، وتشهد على تغيّراتٍ ملموسة. وقد بذلت دولة قطر جهوداً مميّزة لإنجاح الحدث وتستمرّ في ذلك، ويمكنها الاعتماد على دعمنا. لون العالم يرقص فرحاً بعد كلّ هدفٍ تحرزونه. لذا، فلنرقص فرحاً سوياً! ومرّة أخرى "هيّا أيّها الزرق!" ─ H.E. *Emmanuel Macron* 🇨🇵 The President of France
"nineteen hundred years old." nope.
Hmmmm
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@donttellmejustlisten4598
7 ай бұрын
Who build these caves Christians??
Ahsmwm The people of Magog (yes Gog and Magog) were here.
Made by beings coming up not going down .
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Great information, thanks a lot.
Bro im doing my homework i cant understand😢
are they exploring it because they are planning to destroy/sink it through a dam in the future?
Megint ez az angol szennycsatorna.
I judge civilization by medical technology, not weapons and buildings.
The coin from 1322 it's writing on it.
Its only because the Netflix documentary Graham Hancock- Our Universe this is because news.!
@HomeTravelGardenInspo
Жыл бұрын
I watched that. Fantastic theories and an alternative understanding to why the people of that time, may have hidden underground.
How many times are you gonna show the guy brushing the stone and the back of someone's orange jacket???? Most useless footage of such an incredible place.
Surah Kahf from Quran
🤔🌍 ''For every one(from among you) there are angels replacing one another, in front of him and behind him, who guard him under the command of Allah. Surely, Allah does not change the condition of a people unless they change themselves. When Allah intends evil for a people, there is no way to turn it back, and for them there is no patron other than Him.'' -- 📖 THE HOLY KORAN 🤔
@privatechannel8462
Жыл бұрын
Well thats nice, is that before they take the ring to mordor?
I would absolutely love to see this place!
@KingSargon96
Жыл бұрын
Wake up its not turkeys history its the history of greece
@canonaler
5 ай бұрын
Come take it back lol@@KingSargon96
well someone is gonna get some tourism money and fame
It's incredible video! Thank you for a lot of interesting information!
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Жыл бұрын
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CORRECTION: It's not Turkey. It's Turkiye. Why did Turkey get the works? For the last time: that's nobody's business but the Turks!
It's fascinating to know how people lived thousands of years ago. job well done
@keniamcguire2126
Жыл бұрын
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This is good for zombie apocalypse,
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Жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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How is this news?
This underground city was made to protect themselves from giants. And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” Genesis 6:1-4 KJV
These could have been the caves where ancient Syrian and Canaanites (Knanaya) survived against Roman and Islamic. Knanaya are a sect of Christians who arrived in Kerala (southern state in India) around the 5-6th C AD.
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Жыл бұрын
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11 ай бұрын
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Graham Hancock's new netflix series is very thought provoking expanding on his 1990's work...
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Жыл бұрын
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@stephenpodeschi6052
Жыл бұрын
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Жыл бұрын
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@pjdunnit6753
Жыл бұрын
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@pjdunnit6753
Жыл бұрын
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Is it worthed while people are getting bombarded in Ukraine..people getting killed in Ethiopia..and I mean what the purpose of this ..life goes on ..really is it not something morbid ..while some are getting killed others are enjoying life
Turkish peeps on a fallout
slow news day?
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