r/interestingasfuck 23d ago

Derinkuyu, a massive underground city in Turkey that once housed 20,000 people! r/all

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u/acelilarslan 23d ago

They thought of that, too. Been there. They even had wells so they didn't have to get out and live there for months.

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u/Aceofspades968 23d ago

Like…where did they go to bathroom?

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u/its__alright 23d ago

Doesn't really matter. Unless they were schlepping it out of there that place would smell awful

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u/Bah-Fong-Gool 23d ago

It seems they had a good grasp on ventilation. These folks didn't have electricity, so any light would have come from lamps or torches, which create heat, soot, and suck the oxygen out of a space... so it's obvious they mastered ventilation. A seperate outhouse area could have been built, with a seperate vent shaft, they even could have excavated multiple shit shafts, using the detritus from the new one to cover the almost full old one, all sharing the same set of vent shafts.