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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Whose Caves Are These?

posted by on July 31 at 11:53 AM

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Find out after the jump.

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Ironic that early Christians—threatened by and threatening to the Romans in their day—built and settled similar underground/cave cities in Cappadocia.

Posted by Nick | July 31, 2007 12:13 PM
2

Jonah, where did you find that pic? The one you posted is too small ... you can't read the little bubbles, and I can't figure out how to enlarge.

Posted by arduous | July 31, 2007 12:57 PM
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Are you planning on building your own underground bunker? If so, let me know. I'll bring beer.

http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/nether_fictoid3.htm

Posted by Jonah S | July 31, 2007 1:08 PM
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Does Tora Bora sound like a Dr. Seuss locale to anyone else?

Posted by anners | July 31, 2007 1:15 PM
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what's up with spreading this bogus image. the american press was dumb enough to pick it up and shovel to the masses. why are you reheating the leftovers? someone might actually believe it exists. from the pic's hosted source (who calls it a "fictoid"):


"A few weeks after the "Meet the Press" interview, US special forces and their Afghan allies occupied Tora Bora. They painstakingly searched Gree Khil mountain and the surrounding area. They found no underground fortress, no hydro-electric power plant, no 2000-room hotel, no ant farm, no iron doors, no ventilating shafts. The troglodyte Lair of Bin Laden turned out to be mythic."

Posted by josh | July 31, 2007 1:31 PM
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I have friends in Edinburgh from Cappadocia, and they run a kebab shop called...Cappadocia. And the place has awesome pictures of the city plastered all over the walls.

Posted by Gabriel | July 31, 2007 1:38 PM
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I thought it was somewhere in Turkey, at first. I've been to Cappadocia. Nice Frescos. I doubt any of the cave cities in central Turkey are this complex, though it sounds like this one isn't either. Doesn't the United States have a similar mountain complex somewhere? Its at the end of Terminator 3.

Posted by Sam | July 31, 2007 2:14 PM
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I think you are confusing the small (& likely fictional) underground facility at the end of T3 with the Cheyenne mountain complex. It is (was? I think it recently shut down) the US Air Forces and NORAD's headquarters, where they tracked the radar covering the US and IIRC space. It was built into the mountain to supposedly survive a direct nuclear attack.

Posted by k X One | July 31, 2007 2:23 PM
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I think you are right.

Posted by Sam | July 31, 2007 3:35 PM
10

Looks like the Lycian tombs in Fethiye.

Posted by elrider | July 31, 2007 4:34 PM
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