Ancient underground cities of the earth (4 photos). Underground cities and civilizations. Ancient tunnels of civilizations. Ancient underground civilizations, what do we know about them? Where is the underground city

We can say that this mystery has been solved, because modern researchers
We have already made our conclusion - we are not the only inhabitants on planet Earth.
Evidence from ancient times, as well as discoveries of scientists of the 20th and 21st centuries,
claim that on Earth, or rather, underground, from ancient times to
There have been mysterious civilizations in our days.

Representatives of these civilizations for some reason did not enter into
contact with people, but still made themselves felt, and the ground
of humanity, since ancient times there have been traditions and legends about mysterious and
strange people who sometimes come out of caves. In addition, modern
people have less and less doubt about the existence of UFOs, which
often observed flying out of the ground or from the depths of the seas.

Research conducted by NASA specialists together with French
scientists discovered underground cities, as well as an underground branched
a network of tunnels and galleries extending over tens and even thousands
kilometers in Altai, the Urals, Perm region, Tien Shan, Sahara and South
America. And these are not those ancient land cities that collapsed and with
Over time, their ruins were covered with earth and forests. These are the underground cities
and structures erected in a way unknown to us directly in the underground
rocks.

Polish researcher Jan Paenk claims that underground
a whole network of tunnels that lead to any country. These tunnels are created
with the help of high technology unknown to people, and pass not only
under the surface of the land, but also under the bed of seas and oceans. Tunnels are not easy
pierced, as if burned out in underground rocks, and their walls
are a frozen melt of rocks - smooth, like glass and
have extraordinary strength. Jan Paenk met with miners,
which, when digging shreks, came across such tunnels. What does he think?
Polish scientist and many other researchers, according to these underground
communications carry flying saucers from one end of the world to the other.
(Ufologists have a huge amount of evidence that UFOs fly out
from underground and from the depths of the seas). Such tunnels have also been found in
Ecuador, South Australia, USA, New Zealand. In addition, in many
parts of the world found vertical, absolutely straight (like an arrow)
wells with the same melted walls. These wells have different
depth from tens to several hundred meters.

Juan Moritz, an Argentine ethnologist, was one of the first to study
many kilometers of tunnels in South America. In June 1965 in Ecuador in
he discovered and mapped the province of Morona-Santiago to no one
a well-known system of underground tunnels with a total length of hundreds
kilometers. They extend deep underground and represent
the giant labyrinth is clearly not of natural origin. It looks like this: in
a huge opening has been cut through the thickness of the rock; there is a descent from it deep into the rock
onto successive horizontal platforms, this descent
leads to a depth of 240 m. There are rectangular tunnels
section and varying width. They turn strictly at right angles.
The walls are so smooth, as if polished. The ceilings are perfectly flat and
as if covered with varnish. Ventilation vents are positioned strictly periodically
shafts with a diameter of about 70 cm. There are large rooms the size of
theater Hall. In one of these rooms furniture was discovered
resembling a table and seven chairs in the form of a throne. This furniture is made from
unknown material similar to plastic. In the same room were
Figures of fossil lizards, elephants, and crocodiles cast in gold were discovered.
Here Juan Moritz discovered a huge amount of metal
plates on which writings are engraved. On some plates
astronomical concepts and ideas of space travel are reflected. All
the plates are exactly the same, as if “cut to measure” from sheets
metal made using high technology.

Without a doubt, the discovery made by Juan Moritz is to some extent
lifts the curtain on who built the tunnels, their level of knowledge and
approximately - the era when this happened.

In 1976, a joint Anglo-Ecuadorian expedition conducted
research of one of the underground tunnels in the Los Tayos area, on
border of Peru and Ecuador. There, in one of the underground rooms, also
there was a table surrounded by chairs with backs more than two feet high
meters made of unknown material. Other room
was a library and was a long hall with a narrow passage
in the middle. Along its walls were shelves with ancient books - these were
thick volumes of about 400 pages each. The pages of these books were
made of pure gold and filled with an unknown script.

Since 1997, the Kosmopoisk expedition has carefully studied
the well-known Medveditskaya ridge in the Volga region. Researchers have discovered and
mapped an extensive network of tunnels stretching over dozens
kilometers. The tunnels have a circular cross-section, sometimes oval, with a diameter of
7 to 20 m, maintaining a constant width and direction along the entire length.
The tunnels are located at a depth of 6 to 30 meters from the surface of the earth. By
As you approach the hill on the Medveditskaya ridge, the diameter of the tunnels
increases from 20 to 35 meters, and then to 80 m and already at the very
heights, the diameter of the cavities reaches 120 m, turning under the mountain into
huge hall. From here, at different angles, three seven-meter high
tunnel. It looks like the Medveditskaya ridge is a junction, a crossroads where
Tunnels from different regions converge. Researchers suggest that
from here you can get not only to the Caucasus and Crimea, but also to the northern
regions of Russia, to Novaya Zemlya and further to the North American continent.

Crimean speleologists discovered a huge cavity under the massif
Ai-Petri, picturesquely hanging over Alupka and Simeiz. Besides,
tunnels connecting Crimea and the Caucasus were discovered. Ufologists of the Caucasus
region during one of the expeditions it was determined that under the Uvarov ridge,
opposite Mount Arus, there are tunnels, one of which leads along
direction to the Crimean peninsula, and the other through the cities of Krasnodar,
Yeisk, Rostov-on-Don stretches to the Volga region.

In the Caucasus, in the gorge near Gelendzhik, it has been known since ancient times
vertical shaft – straight as an arrow, about one and a half meters in diameter,
depth 6oles more than 100 m. Its peculiarity is smooth, as if
melted walls. Scientists who studied the surface of the mine walls came to
conclusion that the rock was subjected to both thermal and
mechanical impact that created an extremely durable layer
thickness 1-1.5 mm. Using modern technologies to create such
impossible. In addition, an intense radiation background was noted in the mine.
It is possible that this is one of the vertical trunks leading to
horizontal tunnel running from this area in the Volga region to Medveditskaya
coming.

It is not surprising that P. Mironichenko in his book “The Legend of LSP” believes
that our entire country, including Crimea, Altai, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East,
riddled with tunnels. All that remains is to discover their location.

As Evgeniy Vorobyov, academician of the Russian National Academy of Sciences, writes: “It is known that in
post-war years (in 1950) a secret decree was issued
USSR Council of Ministers on the construction of a tunnel across the Tatar Strait to
connect the mainland by rail with the island. Sakhalin. Over time, secrecy
removed, and Doctor of Physical and Technical Sciences L.S. Berman, who worked there in
this time, she told in 1991 in her memoirs to the Voronezh
department of "Memorial" that the builders were not so much building as
restored an existing tunnel, laid in a deep
antiquity, extremely competently, taking into account the geology of the strait bottom.
Mention was also made of strange finds in the tunnel - incomprehensible mechanisms and
animal fossils. All this then disappeared into secret databases
intelligence services It is possible that this tunnel leads through the island. Sakhalin in
Japan, and maybe further.

Now let's move to the region of Western Europe, in particular, to the border
Slovenia and Poland, in the Tatra Beskydy mountain range. Here rises Babya
mountain 1725 m high. Since ancient times, residents of the surrounding area
keep the secret of this mountain. According to one of the residents named Vincent,
In the 60s of the 20th century, he and his father went to Babya Mountain. On
at an altitude of approximately 600 m, they pushed aside one of the protruding blocks,
and a large entrance to the tunnel opened for them. The oval-shaped tunnel was straight,
wide and so high that an entire train could fit in it. Smooth and
the shiny surface of the walls and floor seemed covered with glass. Inside
it was dry. A long path along an inclined tunnel led them to a spacious
a hall shaped like a huge barrel. Several began from it
tunnels going in different directions. Some of them were triangular
section, others round. Vincent's father said that through the tunnels from here
you can get to different countries and even different continents. Tunnel on the left
leads to Germany, then to England and further to the American continent.
The right tunnel stretches to Russia, the Caucasus, then to China and Japan, and
from there to America, where it connects with the left.”

In 1963, a multi-tiered structure was discovered under the city of Derikuyu in Turkey.
an underground city stretching underground for tens of kilometers. His
Numerous rooms and galleries are connected to each other by passages.
Ancient architects equipped the underground empire with a system
life support, the perfection of which is amazing even today. All here
thought out to the smallest detail: premises for animals, warehouses for
food, rooms for cooking and eating, sleeping,
meetings... At the same time, religious temples and schools were not forgotten. Exactly
the calculated blocking device made it easy to block
granite doors enter the dungeon. And the ventilation system that supplied
the city with fresh air continues to function flawlessly to this day!

Objects of material culture of the Hittites were found here, whose kingdom
formed in the 17th century BC, and in the 7th century BC. it sank into
unknown. For what reason did the people go underground? Scientists still
remains to be guessed. The developed underground civilization of the Hittites was able
to exist unnoticed by the terrestrial world for more than a thousand years.

In addition, in Turkey near the village of Kaymakli, in Ukraine in Tripoli and
In other places on Earth, archaeologists are excavating ancient underground cities.

According to many scientists and researchers from different countries, absolutely
it is obvious that there is a single global system on planet Earth
underground communications, located at a depth of several tens
meters to several kilometers from the surface of the earth, consisting of
many kilometers of tunnels, junction stations, small settlements and
huge cities with a perfect life support system. For example,
ventilation system allows for indoor storage
constant, acceptable temperature for life.

In addition, according to scientists, this information (and in this article
only a small part of them is given) they say that on earth for a long time
before humanity existed, and most likely, there were civilizations with
high level of technology. In addition, some researchers
believe that the underground tunnels left by those ancient people, and in
currently used for underground UFO movements and life
civilization living on Earth at the same time as us.

Underground civilization. Mines, tunnels, underground cities

Voids in the earth's crust are found throughout
world, and an underground civilization may actually exist, given
quite comfortable living conditions underground. Mention of underground
civilizations are found in the myths of different peoples and on different continents
often enough. And recent scientific discoveries confirm the possibility
life underground.

It's hard to find a people who don't have
there would be tales of creatures living in the darkness of dungeons. They were
much older than the human race and descended from dwarfs,
disappeared from the surface of the earth. They possessed secret knowledge and
crafts. In relation to people, the inhabitants of the dungeons, as a rule, were
are hostile. Therefore, we can assume that in fairy tales
describes something that really existed, and maybe still exists today
underworld.

The mysterious underground world exists not only in
legends In recent decades, the number of cave visitors has been noticeable
has increased. Seekers are making their way deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Earth.
adventurers and miners, increasingly they come across traces of activity
mysterious underground inhabitants. It turned out that underneath us there is a whole
a network of tunnels stretching for thousands of kilometers and enveloping
the whole Earth, and huge, sometimes even populated underground cities.

Especially
There are many stories about mysterious South American tunnels. More
the famous English traveler and scientist Percy Fossett, many times
who visited South America, mentioned in his books about extended
caves located near the Popocatepetl and Inlacuatl volcanoes
and in the Mount Shasta area. Some researchers were able to see
fragments of this underground empire. Recently at the university library
city ​​of Cusco in the Andes, archaeologists have discovered a report on the disaster that befell
1952 to a group of researchers from France and the USA. In the vicinity of the city
They found the entrance to the dungeon and began to prepare to descend into it.
The archaeologists did not intend to stay there for long, so they took food for
five days. However, out of seven participants to the surface after 15 days
Only one made it out - the Frenchman Philippe Lamontiere. He was almost exhausted
did not remember anything, and soon he was found to have signs of death
bubonic plague. But still we managed to find out from him that his companions fell into
bottomless abyss. The authorities, fearing the spread of the plague, hastened
block the entrance to the dungeon with a reinforced concrete slab. Frenchman via
died a few days ago, but the corn he found underground remained
a cob of pure gold.

In South America there is
amazing caves connected by endless intricate passages - so
called chinkanas. Hopi Indian legends say that in their depths
snake people live. These caves are practically unexplored. By order
authorities have tightly closed all their entrances with bars. In chincanas already
Dozens of adventurers disappeared without a trace. Some tried to get into
dark depths because of curiosity, others because of the thirst for profit: according to
According to legends, the treasures of the Incas are hidden in chincanas. Get out of the creepy ones
Only a few caves succeeded. But these “lucky ones” are forever
lost their minds. From the incoherent stories of the survivors one can understand
that they met strange creatures in the depths of the earth. These residents
of the underworld were both human and snake-like.

Available
pictures of fragments of global dungeons in North America. book author
about Shambhala by Andrew Thomas based on a thorough analysis of the stories
American speleologists claim that in the mountains of California there are direct
underground passages that lead to New Mexico.

One day
had to start exploring mysterious thousand-kilometer tunnels
and the American military. An underground mine was produced at a test site in Nevada
nuclear explosion. Exactly two hours later at a military base in Canada, remote
from the explosion site 2000 kilometers, the radiation level was recorded at 20
times the norm. A study conducted by geologists showed that
next to the Canadian base there is an underground cavity connecting to
a huge cave system that spans the North American continent.

Especially
There are many legends about the underground world of Tibet and the Himalayas. Here in the mountains
there are tunnels going deep into the ground. Through them the “initiate” can
travel to the center of the planet and meet representatives of the ancient
underground civilization. But not only wise beings who give advice
“initiated”, live in the underworld of India. Ancient Indian legends
talk about the mysterious kingdom of the Nagas, hidden in the depths of the mountains. IN
Nanas live there - snake people who store in their caves countless
hidden treasures. Cold-blooded, like snakes, these creatures are incapable of experiencing
human feelings. They cannot warm themselves and steal heat,
bodily and mental, in other living beings.

About existence in
Russian system of global tunnels wrote in his book “The Legend of
LSP" spelestologist - a researcher studying artificial
structures, - Pavel Miroshnichenko. Drawn by him on the map of the former USSR
lines of global tunnels went from Crimea through the Caucasus to the widely known
Ursa's ridge. In each of these places, groups of ufologists, speleologists,
researchers of the unknown discovered fragments of tunnels or
mysterious bottomless wells.

There are already a lot of Medveditskaya ridge
Expeditions organized by the Kosmopoisk association have been studying for years.
The researchers not only managed to record the stories of local residents, but also
using geophysical equipment to prove the reality of existence
dungeons. Unfortunately, after World War II, the mouths of the tunnels were
blown up.

A sublatitudinal tunnel stretching from Crimea to the east in
area of ​​the Ural Mountains intersects with another, stretching from the north to
East. It is along this tunnel that one can hear stories about “divyas”
people,” reaching out to local residents at the beginning of the last century. "Divya
people,” as told in epics common in the Urals, live
in the Ural Mountains, exits to the world are through caves. Their culture
greatest. "Diva people" are small in stature, very beautiful and with a pleasant
voice, but only a select few can hear them... Comes to the square
an old man from the “wonderful people” and predicts what will happen. Unworthy man
I hear and see nothing, and the men in those places know everything that
the Bolsheviks are hiding."

Recently, a huge complex of underground cities, located on several tiers and connected by tunnels, was discovered in Turkey (Cappadocia). Underground shelters were built by an unknown people in ancient times.

Eric von Daniken in the book “In the Footsteps of the Almighty” describes these shelters as follows:

...giant underground cities were discovered, designed for many thousands of inhabitants. The most famous of them are located under the modern village of Derinkuyu. Entrances to the underworld are hidden under houses. Here and there in the area there are ventilation holes leading far into the interior. The dungeon is cut through by tunnels connecting the rooms. The first floor from the village of Derinkuyu covers an area of ​​four square kilometers, and the premises on the fifth floor can accommodate 10 thousand people. It is estimated that this underground complex can accommodate 300 thousand people at a time.

The Derinkuyu underground structures alone have 52 ventilation shafts and 15 thousand entrances. The largest mine reaches a depth of 85 meters. The lower part of the city served as a reservoir for water...

To date, 36 underground cities have been discovered in this area. Not all of them are on the scale of Kaymakli or Derinkuyu, but their plans were carefully developed. People who know this area well believe that there are many more underground structures here. All cities known today are connected to each other by tunnels.

These underground shelters with huge stone valves, warehouses, kitchens and ventilation shafts are shown in Eric von Däniken's documentary In the Footsteps of the Almighty. The author of the film suggested that ancient people hid in them from some threat coming from heaven.

In many regions of our planet there are numerous mysterious underground structures of unknown purpose to us. In the Sahara Desert (Ghat oasis) near the Algerian border (10° west longitude and 25° north latitude), underground there is a whole system of tunnels and underground communications, which are carved into the rock. The height of the main adits is 3 meters, width – 4 meters. In some places the distance between the tunnels is less than 6 meters. The average length of the tunnels is 4.8 kilometers, and their total length (including auxiliary adits) is 1,600 kilometers.

The modern English Channel Tunnel looks like child's play compared to these structures. There is an assumption that these underground corridors were intended to supply water to the desert regions of the Sahara. But it would be much easier to dig irrigation canals on the surface of the earth. Moreover, in those distant times, the climate in this region was humid, there was heavy rainfall - and there was no special need for irrigation.

To dig these passages underground, it was necessary to extract 20 million cubic meters of rock - this is many times the volume of all the Egyptian pyramids built. The work is truly titanic. It is almost impossible to carry out the construction of underground communications in such a volume using even modern technical means. Scientists attribute these underground communications to the 5th millennium BC. e., that is, to the moment when our ancestors just learned to build primitive huts and use stone tools. Who then built these grandiose tunnels and for what purposes?

In the first half of the 16th century, Francisco Pizarro discovered a cave entrance closed with rock blocks in the Peruvian Andes. It was located at an altitude of 6770 meters above sea level on Mount Huascaran. A speleological expedition organized in 1971, examining a tunnel system consisting of several levels, discovered sealed doors that, despite their massiveness, easily turned to reveal the entrance. The floor of the underground passages is paved with blocks treated in such a way as to prevent slipping (the tunnels leading to the ocean have an inclination of about 14°). According to various estimates, the total length of communications ranges from 88 to 105 kilometers. It is assumed that previously the tunnels led to the island of Guanape, but it is quite difficult to test this hypothesis, because the passages end in a lake of salty sea water.

In 1965, in Ecuador (Morona-Santiago province), between the cities of Galaquisa, San Antonio and Yopi, Argentinean Juan Morich discovered a system of tunnels and ventilation shafts with a total length of several hundred kilometers. The entrance to this system looks like a neat cutout in the rock about the size of a barn door. The tunnels have a rectangular cross-section with varying widths and sometimes turn at right angles. The walls of the underground communications are covered with a kind of glaze, as if they were treated with some kind of solvent or exposed to high temperature. Interestingly, no rock dumps from the tunnels were found at the exit.

The underground passage leads successively to underground platforms and huge halls located at a depth of 240 meters, with ventilation openings 70 centimeters wide. In the center of one of the halls measuring 110 x 130 meters there is a table and seven thrones made of an unknown material similar to plastic. A whole gallery of large golden figures depicting animals was also discovered there: elephants, crocodiles, lions, camels, bison, bears, monkeys, wolves, jaguars, crabs, snails and even dinosaurs. The researchers also found a “library” consisting of several thousand embossed metal plates measuring 45 x 90 centimeters, covered with incomprehensible signs. The priest Father Carlo Crespi, who carried out archaeological research there with the permission of the Vatican, states:

All the finds brought out of the tunnels date back to the pre-Christian era, and most of the symbols and prehistoric images are older than the time of the Flood.

In 1972, Eric von Daniken met with Juan Moric and persuaded him to show the ancient tunnels. The researcher agreed, but with one condition - not to photograph the underground labyrinths. In his book, Däniken writes:

To help us better understand what was happening, the guides made us walk the last 40 kilometers. We are very tired; the tropics have worn us out. Finally we came to a hill that had many entrances into the depths of the Earth.

The entrance we chose was almost invisible due to the vegetation covering it. It was wider than a railway station. We walked through a tunnel that was about 40 meters wide; its flat ceiling showed no signs of connecting devices.

The entrance to it was located at the foot of the Los Tayos hill, and at least the first 200 meters went simply downhill towards the center of the massif. The height of the tunnel was approximately 230 centimeters, and there was a floor partially covered with bird droppings, a layer of approximately 80 centimeters. Among the garbage and droppings, metal and stone figurines were constantly found. The floor was made of processed stone.

We lit our way with carbide lamps. There were no traces of soot in these caves. According to legend, their inhabitants illuminated the road with golden mirrors that reflected sunlight, or with a system of collecting light using emeralds. This last solution reminded us of the laser principle. The walls are also covered with very well-cut stones. The admiration aroused by the buildings of Machu Picchu diminishes when one sees this work. The stone is smoothly polished and has straight edges. The ribs are not rounded. The joints of the stones are barely noticeable. Judging by some of the treated blocks lying on the floor, there was no settling as the surrounding walls are finished and fully finished. What is it - the carelessness of the creators who, having finished their work, left pieces behind them, or did they think to continue their work?

The walls are almost completely covered with reliefs of animals - both modern and extinct. Dinosaurs, elephants, jaguars, crocodiles, monkeys, crayfish - all headed towards the center. We found a carved inscription - a square with rounded corners, about 12 centimeters on a side. Groups of geometric shapes varied between two and four units of varying lengths, appearing to be placed in vertical and horizontal shapes. This order was not repeated from one to the other. Is it a number system or a computer program? Just in case, the expedition was equipped with an oxygen supply system, but it was not needed. Even today, the ventilation ducts cut vertically into the hill were well preserved and performed their function. When reaching the surface, some of them are covered with lids. It is difficult to detect them from the outside, only sometimes a bottomless well appears among groups of stones.

The ceiling in the tunnel is low, without relief. Outwardly, it looks like it is made of rough processed stone. However, it feels soft to the touch. The heat and humidity disappeared, making the journey easier. We reached a wall of dressed stone that divided our path. On either side of the wide tunnel we were descending there was a path leading to a narrower passage. We moved to one of those that went to the left. We later discovered that another passage led in the same direction. We walked about 1200 meters through these passages, only to find a stone wall blocking our path. Our guide extended his hand to some point, and at the same time two stone doors 35 centimeters wide opened.

We stopped, holding our breath, at the mouth of a huge cave with dimensions that cannot be determined with the naked eye. One side was about 5 meters high. The dimensions of the cave were approximately 110 x 130 meters, although its shape is not rectangular.

The conductor whistled, and various shadows crossed the “living room.” Birds and butterflies were flying, no one knew where. Various tunnels opened up. Our guide said that this Great Room always remains clean. Everywhere on the walls there are animals drawn and squares drawn. Moreover, they all connect to each other. In the middle of the Living Room there was a table and several chairs. The men sit back, leaning back; but these chairs are for taller people. They are designed for statues approximately 2 meters high. At first glance, the table and chairs are made of simple stone. However, if you touch them, they will turn out to be made of plastic material, almost worn out and completely smooth. The table measures approximately 3 x 6 meters and is supported only by a cylindrical base with a diameter of 77 centimeters. The thickness of the top is about 30 centimeters. There are five chairs on one side and six or seven on the other. If you touch the inside of the table top, you can feel the texture and coldness of the stone, making you think that it is covered with an unknown material. First, the guide led us to another hidden door. Once again, two sections of stone opened effortlessly, revealing another, but smaller, living space. It had a lot of shelves with volumes, and in the middle there was a passage between them, like in a modern book warehouse. They were also made of some cold material, soft, but with edges that almost cut the skin. Stone, petrified wood or metal? Hard to understand.

Each volume was 90 centimeters high and 45 centimeters thick and contained about 400 processed gold pages. These books have metal covers that are 4 millimeters thick and are darker in color than the pages themselves. They are not sewn, but they are fastened in some other way. The carelessness of one of the visitors drew our attention to another detail. He grabbed one of the metal pages, which, despite being only a fraction of a millimeter thick, was strong and smooth. The notebook without a cover fell to the floor and when I tried to pick it up, it wrinkled like paper. Each page had an engraving, so exquisite that it seemed as if it had been written in ink. Maybe this is the underground storage of some kind of space library?

The pages of these volumes are divided into various squares with rounded corners. Here it is perhaps much easier to understand these hieroglyphs, abstract symbols, as well as stylized human figures - heads with rays, hands with three, four and five fingers. Among these symbols, one is similar to a large carved inscription found in the museum of the Church of Our Lady of Cuenca. It probably belongs to the gold objects believed to have been taken from Los Tayos. It is 52 centimeters long, 14 centimeters wide and 4 centimeters deep, with 56 different characters, which could well be the alphabet... The visit to Cuenca turned out to be very important for us, because it was possible to see the objects exhibited by Father Crespi in the Church of Our Lady, and also listen to the legends about the local white gods, fair-haired and blue-eyed, who visited this country from time to time... Their residence is unknown, although it is assumed that they lived in an unknown city near Cuenca. Although the dark-skinned indigenous population believes that they bring happiness, they are afraid of their mental power, as they practice telepathy and are said to be able to levitate objects without contact. Their average height is 185 centimeters for women and 190 for men. The chairs in the Great Living Room at Los Tayos will definitely suit them.

Numerous illustrations of amazing underground finds can be seen in von Daniken’s book “The Gold of the Gods.” When Juan Moric reported his discovery, a joint Anglo-Ecuadorian expedition was organized to explore the tunnels. Her honorary advisor, Neil Armstrong, said of the results:

Signs of human life underground have been found in what may prove to be the major worldwide archaeological discovery of the century.

After this interview, there was no more information about the mysterious dungeons, and the area where they are located is now closed to foreigners.

Shelters for protection from the cataclysms that struck the Earth during its approach to the neutron star, as well as from all kinds of disasters that accompanied the wars of the gods, were built all over the globe. Dolmens, which are a kind of stone dugouts covered with a massive slab and with a small round hole for entry, were intended for the same purposes as underground structures, that is, they served as a shelter. These stone structures are found in different parts of the world - India, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Sicily, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Korea, Siberia, Georgia, Azerbaijan. At the same time, dolmens located in different parts of our planet are surprisingly similar to each other, as if they were made according to a standard design. According to the legends and myths of various peoples, they were built by dwarfs, as well as people, but the latter’s buildings turned out to be more primitive, since they used roughly processed stones.

During the construction of these structures, sometimes special vibration-damping layers were made under the foundation, which protected the dolmens from earthquakes. For example, an ancient structure located in Azerbaijan near the village of Gorikidi has two damping tiers. In the Egyptian pyramids, chambers filled with sand were also discovered, which served for the same purposes.

The precision of the fit of the massive stone slabs of the dolmens is also amazing. Even with the help of modern technical means, it is very difficult to assemble a dolmen from ready-made blocks. This is how A. Formozov describes in his book “Monuments of Primitive Art” an attempt to transport one of the dolmens:

In 1960, it was decided to transport some dolmen from Esheri to Sukhumi - to the courtyard of the Abkhazian museum. We chose the smallest one and brought a crane to it. No matter how they fastened the loops of the steel cable to the cover plate, it did not budge. They called the second tap. Two cranes removed the multi-ton monolith, but they were unable to lift it onto a truck. For exactly a year the roof lay in Esheri, waiting for a more powerful mechanism to arrive in Sukhumi. In 1961, using a new mechanism, all the stones were loaded onto vehicles. But the main thing was ahead: to reassemble the house. The reconstruction was only partially completed. The roof was lowered onto four walls, but they could not rotate it so that their edges fit into the grooves on the inner surface of the roof. In ancient times, the slabs were driven so close to each other that a knife blade could not fit between them. Now there is a big gap left.

Currently, numerous ancient catacombs have been discovered in various regions of the planet; it is unknown when and by whom they were dug. There is an assumption that these underground multi-tiered galleries were formed during the process of extracting stone for the construction of buildings. But why was it necessary to spend titanic labor, gouging out blocks of the strongest rocks in narrow underground galleries, when there are similar rocks nearby, located directly on the earth’s surface?

Ancient catacombs were found near Paris, in Italy (Rome, Naples), Spain, on the islands of Sicily and Malta, in Syracuse, Germany, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Crimea. The Russian Society for Speleological Research (ROSI) has done a lot of work to compile an inventory of artificial caves and underground architectural structures in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Currently, information has already been collected on 2,500 catacomb-type objects belonging to different eras. The oldest dungeons date back to the 14th millennium BC. e. (Stone Grave tract in Zaporozhye region).

The Parisian catacombs are a network of winding artificial underground galleries. Their total length is from 187 to 300 kilometers. The most ancient tunnels existed even before the birth of Christ. In the Middle Ages (12th century), limestone and gypsum began to be mined in the catacombs, as a result of which the network of underground galleries was significantly expanded. Later, the dungeons were used to bury the dead. Currently, the remains of about 6 million people rest near Paris.

The dungeons of Rome may be very ancient. More than 40 catacombs, carved into porous volcanic tuff, have been found under the city and its surroundings. The length of the galleries, according to the most conservative estimates, ranges from 100 to 150 kilometers, and possibly exceeds 500 kilometers. During the Roman Empire, dungeons were used to bury the dead: in the galleries of the catacombs and numerous individual burial chambers there are from 600 thousand to 800 thousand burials. At the beginning of our era, the catacombs housed churches and chapels of early Christian communities.

In the vicinity of Naples, about 700 catacombs have been discovered, consisting of tunnels, galleries, caves and secret passages. The oldest dungeons date back to 4500 BC. e. Speleologists discovered underground water pipes, aqueducts and water tanks, rooms where food supplies were previously stored. During World War II, the catacombs were used as bomb shelters.

One of the attractions of ancient Maltese culture is the Hypogeum, an underground catacomb-type shelter that goes several floors deep. Over the centuries (between 3200 and 2900 BC) it was chiseled out of solid granite rock using stone tools. Already in our time, on the lower tier of this underground city, researchers discovered the remains of 6 thousand people buried with various ritual objects.

Perhaps the mysterious underground structures were used by people as shelters from various disasters that occurred on Earth more than once. Descriptions of grandiose battles between aliens that took place in the distant past on our planet, preserved in various sources, suggest that the dungeons could serve as bomb shelters or bunkers.

Incredible facts

Many people have heard that people sometimes go to live in caves, abandoned mines or underground tunnels. In the literature you can often find stories about dungeon people. However, underground cities do not only exist in novels and films. They are very real.

Underground cities were built primarily for protection from enemies, wild animals, weather conditions, and even for conducting illegal activities. find out about the most interesting underground cities in the world and interesting facts related to them.

1) Secret underground city in Beijing, China

Since 1969 and over the next decade by order Mao Tse-tung In Beijing, they began to build an underground emergency shelter for the government. This shelter stretches for a distance near Beijing 30 kilometers. The gigantic city was built during the Sino-Soviet split, and its sole purpose was protect yourself in case of war.

Entrance to Beijing Underground City

This underground city contained shops, restaurants, schools, theaters, hairdressers and even a roller skating rink. In the city one could also find about thousands of bomb shelters, and it could simultaneously accommodate up to 40 percent residents of Beijing in case of war.

Tourists roam Beijing's underground streets today

There were rumors that houses in Beijing had secret hatches, which allowed residents to quickly descend into this underground complex in case of danger. In 2000, the giant underground city was officially opened to tourists, and some of its shelters are used as youth camps.

2) Putin's underground city Yamantau, Russia

Close to the ski resort "Abzakovo", 60 kilometers from Magnitogorsk, which is in the south of the Urals, according to some sources, is located secret underground city for members of the Russian government. The secret base is covered in many rumors and assumptions, including saying that this facility began to be built during the Cold War.

Ski resort "Abzakovo", Southern Urals, Russia

President Putin visits a ski resort "Abzakovo" quite often, but he never answered questions about why this particular place attracts the president so much. Rumors spread that it was not skiing that was the main reason for coming, but construction of a secret underground city on Mount Yamantau.

Mount Yamantau in Bashkortostan

They started talking about the city again in the 1990s in the American and other foreign press. Foreign journalists tried to find out at least some details from the officials, but their attempts were unsuccessful. It is very likely that the articles themselves were based more on rumors than on real facts.

3) Underground city near Moscow, Russia

Everyone knows that Moscow is all cut up underground tunnels, passages and subway buildings, which in Soviet times was considered the most beautiful, fastest and largest metro in the world. Today a lot has changed, but people still talk about mysteries of the underground city near Moscow- a series of underground bunkers built back in Soviet times, and maybe even earlier.

"Secret Subway" Moscow does exist and is intended primarily for military and government members in case of nuclear war or other dangerous situations. Secret lines connect major government facilities, including the Kremlin, the building of the Ministry of Defense and so on.

The secret metro lines, according to some very curious researchers of this issue, no different from the main lines. Why not connect some of these lines to the main lines, given how busy the Moscow metro is today? Apparently, there are reasons for this, and the underground city is waiting in the wings.

4) Rock town Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain

Unlike many other underground cities, this city in Spain lives a full life and accommodates about 3 thousand inhabitants. Some houses in this city are not completely underground, but carved into the rock, which makes the city landscapes especially unusual. The houses seem to be sunk in stones.

Thanks to such unusual buildings, the town attracts many tourists who come here to see unique cave houses. In ancient times, the city served as a fortress.

5) Cave city Chufut-Kale, Crimea

This cave city, located in Crimea, was built back in the early Middle Ages, and although most of it turned into ruins, some ancient buildings still remained: caves, the mausoleum of the daughter of Khan Tokhtamysh, gates and others.

Entrances to the underground dwellings of the ghost town of Chufut-Kale

Initially they lived in the city Alans- Iranian-speaking tribes, later moved here Cumans, A in the 14th century they started flocking here Karaites, and by the time the Crimean Khanate was formed, most likely, they were the main inhabitants. At one time, the Khan of independent Crimea even lived permanently in Chufut-Kale. At the end of the 19th century the city was completely abandoned by its inhabitants.

6) Secret cellars of Moose Jaw gangsters, Canada

Underground cities were sometimes built not at all for protection during military conflicts, but for protection during harsh weather conditions. For example, the city of Moose Jaw in central Canada has a series of tunnels and underpasses that were built to keep workers warm. However, these underground premises very soon after construction began to be used for illegal purposes.

The Moose Jaw Tunnels are a favorite criminals, smugglers and bandits during Prohibition in the USA. The underground city turned into a mini Las Vegas and sheltered illegal establishments where casinos and prostitution flourished. They say that Chicago gangster Al Capone had a connection with these basements, so they began to be called "Chicago Connection".

Today, the Chicago Connection is a museum with an armory, a wine cellar and many interesting things from the times of the gangsters.

7) Mysterious City of the Gods in Egypt

Great Pyramids of Giza- the only one of the wonders of the ancient world that has come down to us. Many researchers believe that under the Giza plateau there is something incredible, namely a series of underground tunnels and chambers.

Beginning since 1978, researchers have begun to map the outline of a massive underground complex that could potentially be a massive underground city.

Known as "City of the Gods", this city still hides many secrets. Since it is located directly under one of the most important historical monuments in the world, the integrity of which no one will disturb, It is unlikely that these secrets will be easily revealed in the near future.

Opponents of the theory about the City of the Gods are convinced that there is no underground city under the pyramids, and the story about it was invented, to attract more tourists.

8) Underground Gem City Coober Pedy, Australia

Coober Pedy- a city that is still inhabited. It is located in the desert part of central Australia and is home to about 1600 inhabitants. The city is considered "the capital of disgrace", since more of this semi-precious stone is mined here than anywhere else on the planet.

Entrance to the Coober Pedy Dungeon: It's Hard to Imagine What's Hidden Underground

The city is located underground houses - dugouts, which were dug to protect themselves from the scorching desert sun, as well as to protect children from wild dingoes and local aborigines.

Opal deposits were first discovered in Coober Pedy in 1915, since then these places have been inhabited by gem hunters. If you have opal jewelry, there is every chance that this the stone was brought from Australia, or rather, from the mines of Coober Pedy. Underground you can find not only the homes of local residents, but also restaurants, shops and even a church and a cemetery!

9) Island city with underground restaurants Kish, Iran

In the dungeon Kish city in Iran hides a mysterious city that is so shrouded in mystery that it doesn't even have an official name. Some people call this city Kariz, however, tourists more often call it the Underground City of Kish. The underground premises have a total area of ​​about 10 thousand square meters.

This dungeon is more than 2.5 thousand years old and was originally used as reservoir and water supply system. Like many other ancient cities, this city has been renovated and turned into a tourist attraction. Today you can find cozy underground restaurants, shops and other establishments here.

10) Burlington Underground Bunker, England

There is also a secret underground city in England, it is called Burlington. This city was built in the 1950s for the British government to provide shelter in the event of nuclear war. The dungeon is not very large - only a thousand square meters, but it could easily accommodate about 4 thousand people.

The city had underground highways, railway stations, hospitals and even an underground lake for storing drinking water. There was also a BBC station in the city so the Prime Minister could address those left at the top. Burlington is on standby right up to before 1991, after which the Cold War was over.

Which city has an underground tram?

Underground cities and tunnels can be run by underground transport, in particular trams and trolleybuses, and not just metro trains. There are underground trams in many cities, for example:

Krivoy Rog, Ukraine

High-speed underground tram in Volgograd, Russia

It is known that many Russian rich people build entire underground bunkers in addition to above-ground dwellings, mainly for personal safety

Plan of underground Moscow. Soon the main Russian city will grow not up, but down

In Yakutia (Eastern Siberia), on the site of a man-made mine crater, they want to build an underground city Eco-City 2020 with a capacity of 100 thousand people

Humanity was engaged in the construction of residential dungeons long before the advent of our era. Secret ones were necessary for residents of large settlements for various needs. In the modern world, the construction of underground catacombs acquired special significance during the First World War, when chemical weapons began to be actively used. There were over two thousand underground settlements on the territory of the Soviet Union. Underground cities in Russia still exist today.

Secret under your feet

Many people have heard about the existence of bunkers. At the same time, people often don’t think about the fact that every day they pass over mysterious cities, suspecting nothing. The entrance to the dungeon can be in the most ordinary building, for example, in a residential building. Only a limited number of people have access to the secret. These are well-tested people who live underground for years and perform certain functions. Among the underground settlements are:

Secret underground cities of Russia

It is believed that the first underground buildings appeared in Rus' during the time of Ivan the Terrible’s grandmother, Sophia Paleolog. Of course, underground buildings could have existed before, but only during the time of Princess Sophia did their creation begin to take on a large scale. Most underground buildings were not included in the registers. Only a select few knew about their location.

The creation of dungeons is directly related to Orthodoxy. The first Christians were forced to practice their religion secretly, gathering in caves and catacombs. In memory of the first followers of Christ, underground churches and monasteries were built. The catacombs served not only as a place for quiet, solitary prayer. Here they hid from Muslim cavalry from the Golden Horde and from Catholic knights from the west. The construction of dungeons required special knowledge and sophisticated equipment. In Rus' there was neither one nor the other. Grand Duke John was forced to invite Italian specialists Pietro Antonio Solari, Andrei Fioravanti and his father Aristotle.

Secret underground cities were necessary for protection not only from external, but also from internal enemies. Rus' often suffered from princely strife. One ruler sought to destroy another in order to take a more advantageous throne. Even after the unification of Rus', the Grand Duke had to be wary of his entourage.

Another problem that underground buildings helped to cope with was fires. Unlike Western Europe, where preference was given to stone in construction, wood was used in Rus'. Every year there were severe fires, after which entire streets burned out. People lost not only their homes, but also other property that they had accumulated over the years. The richest residents of the capital began to build dungeons where they could store the most valuable things. After the tower burned down, the catacombs also became a temporary place of residence for fire victims.

The underground cities of Russia, built several centuries ago, still exist today. They were not included on the maps, and entry into them was kept in the strictest confidence. Sometimes the keeper of a secret died before he could pass on his secret to the next keeper. In this case, the underground city remained a secret forever. Probably, the secret will be revealed only by archaeologists of the future.

Underground cities: video

The unknown has always intrigued humanity. Underground cities, especially ancient ones, attract interest like a magnet. The most attractive are those that are open but little studied. Some underground cities of the world have not yet been explored, but this is not the scientists’ fault - all attempts to penetrate them end in the death of the researchers.

There are many legends and scientific assumptions about who created these structures and why. Some suggest that these were shelters; others hypothesize that the underground cities were built by disappeared earthly or alien civilizations. After all, there are fairy tales and fantastic stories about peoples living underground, but there is no evidence that everything in them is complete fiction.

Derinkuyu is an underground city in Turkey, the most explored and famous to date. It was opened in 1963 in Central Cappadocia. In this territory there is a whole network of multi-tiered cities that go deep into the earth. According to Turkish scientists, the lowest level of Derinkuyu that is open to the public reaches 85 meters. According to researchers, there are about 20 more tiers below. At the moment, 12 floors are open to tourists. On each tier you can find premises intended for housing, for keeping pets, temples, underground wells, and ventilation shafts. But there is still debate about who and when built the underground cities in Cappadocia. Some scientists date its appearance to the 6th century BC. e., suggesting that early Christians created them as refuges from persecution. Others claim that the network of cities arose more than 13 million years ago and was built by an unknown person. One way or another, not a single burial place of those who created this masterpiece of underground architecture has yet been found.

No less interesting are the underground cities built in the last century in various countries by our contemporaries. For example, Burlington, built in England for the British government. Its construction took place in the 50s of the last century and was intended to shelter the country's leadership from a nuclear strike. Despite the small size of the dungeon (only 1000 square meters), it could accommodate up to 4000 people at a time. Hospitals, roads and a kind of tanker for drinking water were built in the city. Throughout the Cold War, Burlington was kept in full readiness to receive people.

Chinese leader Mao Zedong surpassed the British. He built a secret underground city near Beijing, stretching for 30 km. Although its purpose was to protect government members and their families in the event of war, the city's infrastructure is quite extensive. Hospitals, shops, schools, hairdressers and even a roller skating stadium were built underground. It also had an extensive network of air-raid shelters. Almost half of the population of the upper city could live in the underground city of Beijing. There are even suggestions that in many houses in the capital there are special shafts that allow you to quickly descend into the dungeon. Since 2000, the city has been open to public visits. Most of the territory is given over to youth camp sites.