Would you live here?

A woman visits Derinkuyu. (Natalia Moroz/Getty Images)
People hid in Derinkuyu long ago. (Nevit Dilmen/CC BY-SA 3.0)
Researchers explore Matiate. (Halil Ibrahim Sincar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Matiate is beneath the city of Midyat. Midyat is an old city. (TobiasGr/CC BY-SA 4.0)
These rooms are in the Kaymakli Underground City. (AP/Courtney Bonnell)

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There are cities below ground. They have rooms to cook and store food. There are places to keep animals. There are school rooms. There is even a chapel.

People lived there long ago.

Pray: Thank God for the joy of learning history. God gave people smart ideas for where to live and stay safe.

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A Turkish man lost chickens while fixing his house in 1963. The birds found passages below ground. People dug. They discovered a cave city called Derinkuyu. It has 18 levels of tunnels. It stretches hundreds of miles. The city may date back to the 700s B.C. It was a safe place in war time. Christians also lived there when leaders did not support their faith. People found a bigger underground city in 2020 called Matiate. It dates from A.D. 100-200.

We look forward to an eternal city “whose designer and builder is God.” (Hebrews 11:10)