Category: Places
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Kaymakli
Way more elaborate than Derinkuyu, and a lot less manicured, at least in the visible sections. A complete 3D maze. Yet again the guides spieling the usual guesses as fact. Some of the round stone doors seem to be made of a different rock to the tuff, but are too large to remove from the…
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Derinkuyu
Although not peak season, still filled with hundreds of tourists, voices echoing through the tunnels. But in some ways, probably a more authentic experience if at one time this was home to 20,000 people. A lot of the floors are scalloped like beach sand as the tide goes out, even the steps, which have been…
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Eye of the Beholder
Thoughts on visiting the ‘Minoan Palaces’ of Crete Although increasingly recognised as erroneous, the widespread tendency of archaeology to paint what they find in the colours of what they believe still pervades much of our given interpretations of history. The so called palaces of Crete are a perfect example. Since they could not conceive of…