“Secrets of the Ages: Discover the Massive Underground City Hidden Beneath Historic Central Iran!”
Discovering The Underground City Beneath Abarkuh, Iran
IRNAA look inside one of the underground tunnels, which were initially discovered beneath five houses in Abarkuh.
According to Iranian media, the underground city was found under five houses in Abarkuh, when stone chambers were detected under gardens.
“The spaces between these stone beds were turned into gardens by the ancients, and they had foreseen paths under these stone sections for ease of access, security, water transportation, and their lives,” Hossein Hatami, the governor of Abarkuh, explained in an interview. “[T]he presence of small stone chambers in the historical houses of Abarkuh, located under the stone bed, indicates their special function in the past.”
IRNAThe underground city spans 650,000 square feet, but may extend much further throughout the entire city.
The investigation of these stone chambers led to the “discovery of an underground settlement.” What’s more, researchers think that it could extend beneath other neighborhoods — if not the entirety of Abarkuh.
“Given the possibility that there are more examples of this underground complex in other neighborhoods and perhaps throughout the entire historical context of Abarkuh,” Hatami said, “research is continuing.”
For now, researchers believe that the tunnels may have been built by the Qajar people, as stones used in its construction are the same kind of stones found in the city’s Qajar buildings. The Qajar were a tribe that began to spread in the 10th and 11th century, and eventually led to Iran’s Qajar dynasty in the 18th through 20th centuries.
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