Underground Worlds
Beneath our feet there is a vast and fascinating underground world still greatly unexplored. Secret tunnels, narrow passages, catacombs, huge underground cities and labyrinths have been discovered worldwide. Some of these underground worlds are very ancient and date back to a time when our ancestors decided living underground was beneficial for a number of reasons. Other subterranean cities have been constructed in more recent times.
In this section we explore mysterious ancient and modern underground worlds discovered in various parts of the world.
Underground Worlds Archive
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Most archaeologists say excavating in Italy is as exciting as challenging. The country's rich and complex ancient history, with human habitation dating back
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The witnesses say they never intended to see or explore the mysterious cave. They stumbled upon it through a mix of luck and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - It is fascinating to think that a secret 5,000-year-old underground city could be hidden somewhere beneath Death Valley, California. Those who entered the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There are moments when people stumble upon discoveries so astounding that they compel us to question our understanding of the world beneath us.
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Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – There is a fascinating tale of an ancient subterranean world originating from Tibet. The story, narrated by an explorer who journeyed through countless
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Isn't it fascinating to consider the possibility of countless ancient underground worlds yet to be discovered beneath our feet? Our understanding of these
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The exploration of caves and hidden underground tunnels offers an experience similar to stepping into a mysterious realm. One never knows what can
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - While excavating at the mountain, scientists discovered something ancient and unusual hidden inside an underground structure. Soon, all excavations were stopped. Is it
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Geology
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – The Grand Canyon’s valleys and millions of years of rock layers spanning Earth’s history have earned it a designation as one of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A tunnel discovered under the ruins of the Saxon Palace in Warsaw is the most mysterious place on Piłsudski Square, says the Pałac
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists knew the ancient underground city they examined was huge, but now it's obvious it's twice as large as previously thought! What secrets
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Palmwood shipwreck was discovered off the coast of the Dutch island of Texel in the Wadden Sea. The ship, whose name is
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Paleontology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The world beneath our feet is sometimes full of surprises. South America has hundreds of kilometers of weird tunnels and peculiar caves. The
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2015, Gkuthaarn and Kukatj community members of Queensland's Gulf Country invited us to excavate, analyze, and rebury the skeletal remains of eight
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - As archaeologists continue to excavate the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt, new impressive findings are being made. The Italian Dutch archeological mission from the
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A previously unknown underground tunnel estimated to be about 1,500 years have been unearthed during ongoing archaeological excavations in 1,500-year-old St. Polyeuktos Church in
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Many histories of Nottingham have been produced. People made their own observations and studied the city's past. Yet others published information from other sources,
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An unrecognized, hidden, and millennia-old subterranean world lies under the surface of our planet. Unknown ancient men once dug an underground world of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In many cases, the world below us is just as fascinating as the ground we walk on. Across Europe, there is a hidden,
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Uplistsikhe (today in ruins) is a cave-town fortress, one of the oldest religious, political and cultural centers of present-day Georgia located at the crossroads
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Located in Alexandria, Egypt the catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa is one of the Seven Wonders of the Medieval Ages. It’s an archaeological
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In part 1 we discussed briefly why we may have misunderstood some of Plato’s writings. This time we examine yet another possibility and
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In several of our previous articles, we have discussed secret subterranean worlds that hold clues to our ancient past. Modern archaeologists keep discovering
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - St. Paul’s Catacombs provide us with the earliest archaeological evidence of Christianity in Malta. The ancient Roman burial site is the largest and most
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Legends and mystery surround the Caynton caves. Did Knights Templar use the man-made underground chambers for their secret meetings and rituals? Left: Entrance
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A 20-meter-deep tunnel, which could lead to an ancient underground city, was recently discovered in Turkey's central Kayseri province. The tunnel is one-meter-wide
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The astonishing Basilica Cistern, or the "Sunken Palace," is located underneath the streets and houses of Istanbul, Turkey. It is a marvelous hidden
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In 1957, a complex of caves, crypts,. six chapels, and tombs dated to 9-10th century, was found near Murfatlar, a port on the Danube-Black
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Ancient Traditions And Customs
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Under the city of Rome, there is a maze of long-forgotten ancient passages and temples; there are millennia-old underground burial chambers, which remember times
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - When you think of London, many things come to mind, but not the fact that many hidden underground rivers flow beneath the significant
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Cumaean Sibyl was a priestess and prophetess residing over the Apollonian oracle at Cumae, a Greek colony located near Naples, Italy. Her cave, located
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com -Below the city of Camerano in Italy, there is a large, ancient underground city with tunnels, caves, and secret passages leading to mysterious chambers
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Beneath our feet there can still be many secret underground worlds we know nothing about. Ancient myths and legends tell stories of remarkable underground
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Hindu mythology is full of fascinating stories about incredible gods, goddesses, astonishing creatures, remarkable places, unusual objects and powerful technology that can be used
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - The ancient Maya of the Yucatán Peninsula constructed several underground chambers known as Chultuns. The purpose of the chultuns is still an enigma. It’s
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Deep beneath the city of Rome, Italy there is a vast ancient underground labyrinth. Here, we find the Domitilla catacombs that represents the roots of Christianity. Stretching
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Ancient city of Pliska was once the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire after the Ancient Bulgars shifted the center of their state from
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - The discovery of lost ancient underground city of Samen is proof of how rewarding painstaking archaeology can be. Archaeologists have been excavating at this site for
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - This is the story of how one man discovered a large underground village that was estimated to be 70-million-year-old. He presented his findings to
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The catacombs of Alexandria - one of the best-preserved Alexandrian complexes are the largest burial site dating back to the Greco-Roman period in
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Beneath the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland there is a frightening underground world that was considered a fearful and superstitious place at the turn of
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Civilizations
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Near Meteora, a beautiful and strange rock formation in ancient Greece, there are several intriguing ancient caves. One of them is the Theopetra
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