Night descends on this desolate valley as the yatsi - the final Muslim prayer call from the muezzin - ricochets across the gorge. A donkey brays, its hooves giving off a staccato clop-clop as it heads ...

Derinkuyu is a subterranean city in Turkey stretching 280 feet below the Earth's surface. The ancient city was used for centuries before it was abandoned in the 1920s. A local man rediscovered it in ...

A social post shared in early 2024 accurately reported that a man renovating his home in Turkey discovered a massive, ancient, underground city. In early 2024, an image shared on social media claimed ...

Long ago, in the region surrounding Nevsehir and Kayseri, in central Turkey, an ancient people built, or rather dug, over 200 underground cities. The deepest of these, under the present day town of ...

More than 85m beneath the famous fairy chimneys of Cappadocia lies a massive subterranean city that was in near-constant use for thousands of years. (This year, we published many inspiring and amazing ...

CAPPADOCIA, Turkey — Set in the Gobi Desert, The Story of the Weeping Camel (2003), by directors Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni, follows — slowly, meticulously, and subtly — the life of a ...

Where are you going this year? As journeys for a yearly sojourn start taking shape, consider Asia Minor. The climate mirrors our own Southern California weather, with mild winters and hotter summers, ...

Construction work in Turkey’s central Anatolian province of Nevsehir came to a stop in 2013, when workers demolishing low-income homes surrounding Nevsehir castle uncovered the entrances to a number ...