Things to find in Turkey

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• Derinkuyu underground city Cave
  The largest excavated underground city in the world. Under the soft volcanic tuff of Cappadocia in Turkey, people cut a warren eighteen storeys and some sixty metres deep, with stables, wineries, chapels, ventilation shafts and...
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• Eskisehir meerschaum Gem & mineral ground
  Turkey holds essentially the world’s only significant supply of true meerschaum, the feather-light white stone (“sea foam”) dug from pits around Eskisehir and carved into the famous pipes that colour to amber with use. Miners...
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• The Ararat anomaly Legend
  Turkey’s highest mountain, 5,137 metres of ice, and the place Genesis names as the ark’s landing. Expeditions have gone up since the 1800s, and aerial photographs from the 1940s and 50s showing a dark shape in the ice on the...
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Every one of these is sourced

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