Planet Dungeons. Underworld

We can say that this mystery has been solved, because modern researchers have already made their conclusion - we are not the only inhabitants on planet Earth. Evidence of ancient years, as well as the discoveries of scientists of the 20th - 21st centuries, argue that mysterious civilizations existed on Earth, or rather, underground from ancient times to the present day.

For some reason, representatives of these civilizations did not come into contact with people, but still made themselves felt, and terrestrial mankind has long had legends and legends about mysterious and strange people who sometimes come out of caves. In addition, modern people have less and less doubts about the existence of UFOs, which were often observed flying out of the ground or from the depths of the seas.

Research conducted by NASA specialists together with French scientists discovered underground cities, as well as an underground network of tunnels and galleries stretching for tens and even thousands of kilometers in the Altai, the Urals, the Perm region, the Tien Shan, the Sahara and South America. And these are not those ancient land cities that collapsed and over time their ruins were covered with earth and forests. These are precisely underground cities and structures erected in a way unknown to us directly in underground rocks.

Polish researcher Jan Paenk claims that a whole network of tunnels has been laid underground that lead to any country. These tunnels are created with the help of high technology, unknown to people, and they pass not only under the surface of the land, but also under the bed of the seas and oceans. The tunnels are not just punched, but as if burnt out in underground rocks, and their walls are a frozen molten rock - smooth as glass and have an extraordinary strength. Jan Paenk met with miners who came across such tunnels while driving shreks. According to the Polish scientist and many other researchers, flying saucers rush from one end of the world to the other along these underground communications. (Ufologists have a huge amount of evidence that UFOs fly out of the ground and from the depths of the seas). Such tunnels have also been found in Ecuador, South Australia, the USA, and New Zealand. In addition, vertical, absolutely straight (like an arrow) wells with the same melted walls have been found in many parts of the world. These wells have different depths from tens to several hundred meters.

The found underground map of the planet, compiled 5 million years ago, confirms the existence of a high-tech civilization.
For the first time, they started talking about an unknown underground people in 1946. This happened after the writer, journalist and scientist Richard Shaver told readers of the American magazine "Amazing Stories", dedicated to the paranormal, about his contact with aliens living underground. According to Shaver, he lived for several weeks in the underworld of mutants, similar to demons, described in ancient legends and tales of earthlings.
One could attribute this “contact” to the writer’s wild imagination, if not for hundreds of responses from readers who claimed that they also visited underground cities, communicated with their inhabitants and saw various miracles of technology, not only providing underground inhabitants of the Earth with a comfortable existence in its very bowels, but also giving the opportunity to... control the consciousness of earthlings!

In April 1942, with the support of Goering and Himmler, an expedition consisting of the most advanced minds of Nazi Germany, led by Professor Heinz Fischer, set off to look for an entrance to an underground civilization, supposedly located on the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea. Hitler was convinced that at least parts of the earth consisted of voids within which one could live and which had long been home to the highly developed peoples of antiquity. German scientists, in turn, expected that if they managed to place modern radar devices at the right geographical point under the surface of the earth, then with their help it would be possible to track the exact location of the enemy in any part of the world. Almost every nation has myths about the race of Ancient beings that inhabited the world millions of years ago. Infinitely wise, scientifically advanced and culturally advanced, these creatures, driven underground by terrible catastrophes, created their own civilization there, giving them everything they need. They don't want to have anything to do with people they think are mean, dirty, and wild. But sometimes they steal human children, then to raise them as their own. Ancient creatures look like ordinary people and live for a very long time, but they appeared on our planet millions of years before us.
In 1977, photographs taken from the ECCA-7 satellite appeared in several American magazines, showing a regular dark spot, similar to a huge hole, in the place where the North Pole should be located. Identical photographs were taken by the same satellite in 1981, could this be the entrance to the underworld?
Who are the inhabitants of the underworld?

In the history of the planet, there were many ice ages, collisions with meteorites, and other cataclysms that led to the disappearance of civilizations, the period between which cataclysms occurred is quite sufficient for the formation of a highly technical civilization.
Is it possible that some civilization could survive the "end of the world"?
Monsters or inhabitants of the underworld

Suppose that millions of years ago there was a high-tech civilization, during which there was a collision with a meteorite or another global cataclysm that changed the climate of the planet, what would the civilization do then, most likely would try to survive, and if the surface of the planet is not suitable for life and the flight to another planet is not allows the level of technology, only the "underground shelter" remains.
Then the question is, what happened to civilization and why, after the climate change, the underground inhabitants did not come to the surface?
Maybe they just couldn’t, constant stay in a different climate and different gravitation (gravitational pressure underground is significantly different from usual), in addition, it should be noted that there is no sunlight underground, technological lighting does not contain a full spectrum, and a long stay under technical lighting can also be the cause of "weaning" from sunlight.

Given that all this has been going on for thousands of years, it can be assumed that the underground civilization could have evolved greatly, it is even possible that a rejection of some aspects of the climate has developed, such as sunlight, it is possible that sunlight simply burns the inhabitants of the underworld, all this is not as fantastic as it seems. Another aspect of survival is the adaptation of food, since it is not very easy to organize "Vigitarian" food in the conditions of the underworld, and rather depends on the level of civilization, it is more likely that civilization has switched to only animal food. Some of the listed parameters, of course, should have influenced the culture and mentality of civilization, maybe some monsters are just inhabitants of the underworld?

The mysterious underworld exists not only in legends. In recent decades, the number of visitors to the caves has increased markedly. Adventurers and miners are making their way deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Earth, more and more often they come across traces of the activities of mysterious underground inhabitants. It turned out that under us there is a whole network of tunnels stretching for thousands of kilometers and enveloping the entire Earth, and huge, sometimes even populated underground cities.

In South America, there are amazing caves connected by endless intricate passages - the so-called chinkanas. The legends of the Hopi Indians say that snake people live in their depths. These caves are practically unexplored. By order of the authorities, all entrances to them are tightly closed with bars. Dozens of adventurers have already disappeared without a trace in Chinkanas. Some tried to penetrate the dark depths out of curiosity, others out of a thirst for profit: according to legend, Inca treasures are hidden in chinkanas. Only a few managed to get out of the terrible caves. But even these “lucky ones” were permanently damaged in their minds. From the incoherent stories of the survivors, one can understand that they met strange creatures in the depths of the earth. These inhabitants of the underworld were both human and snake-like at the same time.

There are pictures of fragments of global dungeons in North America. The author of the book about Shambhala, Andrew Thomas, on the basis of a thorough analysis of the stories of American speleologists, claims that there are direct underground passages in the mountains of California that lead to the state of New Mexico.

Once I had to study the mysterious thousand-kilometer tunnels and the American military. An underground nuclear explosion was carried out at a test site in Nevada. Exactly two hours later, at a military base in Canada, 2000 kilometers away from the explosion site, a radiation level was recorded that was 20 times higher than normal. A study by geologists has shown that near the Canadian base there is an underground cavity that connects to a huge cave system that permeates the North American continent.

There are especially many legends about the underworld of Tibet and the Himalayas. Here in the mountains there are tunnels that go deep into the earth. Through them, the "initiate" can travel to the center of the planet and meet with representatives of the ancient underground civilization. But not only wise beings who give advice to "initiates" live in the underworld of India. Ancient Indian legends tell of the mysterious kingdom of the Nagas, hidden in the depths of the mountains. Nanases live in it - snake people who keep countless treasures in their caves. Cold-blooded as snakes, these creatures are incapable of experiencing human feelings. They cannot warm themselves and steal warmth, bodily and spiritual, from other living beings.

The existence of a system of global tunnels in Russia was written in his book “The Legend of the LSP” by a spelestolog - a researcher studying artificial structures - Pavel Miroshnichenko. The lines of global tunnels he drew on the map of the former USSR went from the Crimea through the Caucasus to the well-known Medveditsa ridge. In each of these places, groups of ufologists, speleologists, explorers of the unknown discovered fragments of tunnels or mysterious bottomless wells.

The Medveditskaya ridge has been studied by expeditions organized by the Kosmopoisk association for many years. The researchers not only managed to record the stories of local residents, but also using geophysical equipment to prove the reality of the existence of dungeons. Unfortunately, after World War II, the mouths of the tunnels were blown up.

A sublatitudinal tunnel stretching from the Crimea to the east in the region of the Ural Mountains intersects with another, stretched from north to east. It is along this tunnel that you can hear stories about "divya people", who at the beginning of the last century went out to the locals. "Divya people", - is told in epics, common in the Urals, - they live in the Ural Mountains, they have exits to the world through caves. Their culture is great. The “Divya people” are small in stature, very beautiful and have a pleasant voice, but only the elite can hear them ... An old man from the “Divya people” comes to the square and predicts what will happen. An unworthy person does not hear or see anything, and the peasants in those places know everything that the Bolsheviks are hiding.

Legends of our days.

Meanwhile, the most authoritative archaeologists of Peru today have no doubts about the existence of an underground empire: not yet explored by anyone, it, in their understanding, extends under the seas and continents. And ancient buildings rise above the entrances to this grand dungeon in various parts of the world: for example, in Peru, this is the city of Cusco... Of course, not all scientists share the opinion of Peruvian experts. And yet, many facts speak in favor of the underworld, indirectly proving its existence. The 1970s were the most fruitful for such evidence.

England. The miners, digging an underground tunnel, heard the sounds of working mechanisms coming from somewhere below. After breaking through, they found a staircase leading to an underground well. The sound of working equipment increased, and therefore the workers got scared and ran away. Returning after some time, they found neither the entrance to the well nor the stairs.

USA. Anthropologist James Macken, along with his colleagues, explored a cave in Idaho that is notorious among the indigenous population. The locals believed that there is an entrance to the underworld. Scientists, having gone deep into the dungeon, clearly heard screams and groans, and then discovered human skeletons. Further exploration of the cave had to be stopped due to the increasing smell of sulfur.

Under the Black Sea city of Gelendzhik, a bottomless mine with a diameter of about one and a half meters with amazingly smooth edges was discovered. Experts unanimously say: it was created using technology unknown to people and has existed for more than one hundred years.

Speaking of the underworld, one cannot discount the legends that have already appeared today. For example, modern Indians living in the mountainous regions of California say that very tall golden-haired people sometimes come from Mount Shasta: they once descended from heaven, but were unable to adapt to life on the earth's surface. Now they live in a secret city, which is located inside an extinct volcano. And you can get into it only through mountain caves. By the way, Andrew Thomas, the author of a book about Shambhala, absolutely agrees with the Indians. The researcher believes that there are underground passages in Mount Shasta, going in the direction of New Mexico and further to South America.

Speleologists "discovered" another underground people: they are sure that troglodytes inhabit deep caves all over the world. It is said that these cave dwellers sometimes appear before people; help in trouble those who respect their world, and punish those who desecrate the caves...

To believe or not to believe?

To believe or not to believe all these stories? Any sane person will answer: "Do not believe!" But not everything is so clear. Let's try to think logically. Let's think about how real a full-fledged human life underground is? Could there be an unknown culture or even a civilization next to us - or rather, below us - managing to limit contact with terrestrial humanity to a minimum? Staying unnoticed? Is it possible? Does such "living" contradict common sense?

In principle, a person can exist underground, and it would be pretty good if there was money. Suffice it to recall the bunker house that Tom Cruise is currently building: the megastar plans to hide in his underground dwelling from aliens who, in his opinion, should soon attack our Earth. In less "illuminated", but no less solid bunker cities, the "chosen ones" are preparing in the event of an atomic war to wait out the nuclear winter and the post-radiation period - and this is a period during which more than one generation will rise to its feet! Moreover, in China and Spain today, many thousands of people do not live in houses, but in comfortable caves with all amenities. True, these cave dwellers continue to actively contact the outside world and take part in terrestrial life. But the inhabitants of cave monasteries scattered around the world - like the Greek Meteora - have always been almost completely cut off from the hectic life. According to the degree of isolation, lasting for centuries, their existence can be considered underground.

But, perhaps, the most striking example of the adaptability of a huge number of people (what is there - a whole civilization!) To the "lower" world is the underground city of Derinkuyu.

Derinkuyu

Derinkuyu, which means "deep wells", takes its name from the small Turkish town currently located above it. For a long time, no one thought about the purpose of these strangest wells, until in 1963 one of the local residents, who discovered a strange crack in his basement from which fresh air was drawn, showed a healthy curiosity. As a result, a multi-tiered underground city was found, the numerous rooms and galleries of which, connected with each other by passages, tens of kilometers long, were hollowed out in the rocks...

Already during the excavation of the upper tiers of Derinkuyu, it became clear: this was the discovery of the century. In the underground city, scientists discovered objects of material culture of the Hittites, a great people who competed with the Egyptians for dominance in Asia Minor. Hittite kingdom, founded in the XVIII century BC. e., in the XII century BC. e. sank into the unknown. That is why the discovery of a whole city of the Hittites became a real sensation. In addition, it turned out that the giant underground city is only part of a colossal labyrinth under the Anatolian plateau. Scientists have come to the conclusion that underground construction has been carried out for at least nine (!) Centuries. Moreover, these were not just earthworks, albeit of a colossal volume. Ancient architects equipped the underground empire with a life-support system, the perfection of which still amazes today. Everything here was thought out to the smallest detail: rooms for animals, warehouses for food, rooms for cooking and eating, for sleeping, for meetings ... At the same time, religious temples and schools were not forgotten. A precisely calculated blocking device made it easy to block the entrances to the dungeon with granite doors. And the ventilation system that supplied the city with fresh air continues to function flawlessly to this day!

In the presence of provisions in the underground city, up to two hundred thousand people could live indefinitely at the same time. The issue of replenishing food stocks could be solved in many ways: from domestic production to the use of "intermediary services". Apparently, there was no single scheme for all time.
But in the legends of different peoples, underground inhabitants get their livelihood by barter, secret trade, or even theft. The latter option, however, is only suitable for small underground communities: Derinkuyu could hardly feed himself in this way. By the way, most likely, it was the extraction of food that caused the terrestrial inhabitants to have thoughts about the existence of "children of the dungeons" ...
Traces of the Hittites, who lived underground, can be traced until the Middle Ages, and then are lost. A developed underground civilization managed to secretly exist for almost two millennia, and after its disappearance, it did not open to the ground world for more than a thousand years. And this amazing fact alone allows us to make an unambiguous conclusion: yes, it is still possible to live underground in secret from people!

This is a huge underground city that goes underground for 8 floors.

Always +27.

Underground America

Legends and myths of many peoples of the world tell about the existence of various intelligent beings underground. In truth, few sane people have ever taken these stories seriously. But now our time has come, and some researchers began to write about the underground city of Agartha. The entrance to this secret underground abode of them is allegedly located under the Lasha monastery in Tibet. The vast majority of representatives of official science reacted to such statements with slight irony. But on the other hand, messages about mysterious entrances to dungeons and about bottomless mines may, perhaps, be of interest not only to an inquisitive person, but also to a serious scientist.

Among a number of researchers of the underground world, there is a strong opinion that the entrances to the underground cities of humanoid inhabitants exist in Ecuador, the Pamirs and even at the poles of the Arctic and Antarctic.

It was in the area of ​​​​Mount Shasta, according to Indian eyewitnesses, that people who did not look like those here were seen several times coming out of the ground. According to the written testimonies of many Indians, one can also get into the underworld through various caves located near the sacred volcanoes of Popocatelpetl and Inlaquatl. Here, according to the assurances of the same Indians, they sometimes met tall and fair-haired strangers coming out of the dungeon.

Back in his time, the famous English traveler and scientist Percy Fawcett, who visited South America six times, said that he had repeatedly heard from Indians living in mountainous regions that they often see strong, large and golden-haired people descending and ascending into the mountains.

Even 30 years ago, both people and animals disappeared without a trace near Gelendzhik. And in the early 70s of the last century, people accidentally discovered and immediately fenced off a bottomless mine with a diameter of about 1.5 meters. Its walls are smooth, as if polished, without any traces of formwork. Experts almost unanimously say that it must have existed for more than one hundred years and was created using technology not known to modern mankind. The first attempt by scientists and speleologists to carefully examine the phenomenon ended tragically. Of the five members of the expedition, one disappeared, and four died a few days after descending on ropes to a depth of 25 meters. The one who died in the mine descended 30 meters, and at that moment his partners first heard some strange sounds, and then the wild cry of his comrade. Those who remained at the top immediately began to lift their colleague from the mine, but the rope first stretched like a string, and then suddenly weakened. The lower end was cut off like a knife. There were subsequent, however, short-term attempts to study this bottomless well by lowering into it. They gave practically nothing. Then a TV camera was lowered into the mine. The rope was gradually increased up to 200 meters, and all this time the camera showed bare walls. That's all that is known about the Gelendzhik phenomenon today.

Similar bottomless wells have been found on all continents of the planet.

The most authoritative archaeologists of Peru today have no doubts about the existence of a still completely unexplored underground empire, stretching under the seas and continents. In their opinion, there are ancient cities and buildings above the entrances to them in various parts of the continents. For example, in their opinion, one of these places is Cusco in Peru.

In this regard, the most intriguing story is about the underground city of La Checana in the Andes. More recently, in the University Library of the city of Cusco, archeology discovered a report on the catastrophe that befell a group of researchers from France and the United States in 1952. In the vicinity of the named city, they found the entrance to the dungeon and began to prepare for the descent into it. Scientists were not going to stay there for a long time, so they took food for 5 days. However, only 15 days later, out of 7 people, only one Frenchman, Philippe Lamontier, got out to the surface. He was exhausted, suffered from memory lapses, almost lost his human appearance, and besides, he soon showed clear signs of infection with the deadly bubonic plague. While in the hospital isolation, the Frenchman was mostly delirious, but still at times spoke of the bottomless abyss into which his companions had fallen. Nobody took his words seriously, and therefore no rescue expedition was carried out. Moreover, out of fear of the plague, which Philippe Lamontier brought with him, the authorities ordered to immediately block the entrance to the dungeon with a reinforced concrete slab. The Frenchman died a few days later, and after him was left a corncob made of pure gold, which he raised with him from the ground. Now this underground find is stored in the Museum of Archeology in Cusco.

Most recently, the most authoritative researcher of the Inca civilization, Dr. Raul Rios Centeno, tried to repeat the route of the tragically lost expedition of the French and Americans. He gathered a group of 6 specialists and obtained permission from the authorities to enter the dungeon through the already explored entrances. However, having outwitted the guards, the archaeologists went into the dungeon through a room that was under the tomb of a dilapidated temple a few kilometers from Cuzco. From here there was a long, gradually narrowing corridor that looked like part of a huge ventilation system. Some time later, the expedition was forced to stop, as the walls of the tunnel, for some unknown reason, did not reflect infrared rays. Then the researchers decided to use a special radio filter, which suddenly worked when tuned to the frequency of aluminum. This fact plunged all participants into complete bewilderment. Where, one wonders, did this metal appear in the prehistoric labyrinth? They began to explore the walls. And it turned out that they have a casing of unknown origin and a high density, which was not taken by any tool. The tunnel steadily continued to narrow until its height reached 90 cm. People had to turn back. On the way back, the guide fled, fearing that he would eventually be severely punished for assisting the scientists in their illegal activities. This ended the expedition. Doctor Centeno was not allowed to repeat further research even in the highest state instances ...

Tibetan lamas say that the ruler of the Underworld
is the great King of the World, as he is called in the East. And his kingdom
Agharta, based on the principles of the Golden Age - there are at least 60
thousand years. People there do not know evil and do not commit crimes. Unseen
science flourished there, therefore the underground people, who reached
incredible heights of knowledge, does not know diseases and is not afraid of any
cataclysms. The King of the World wisely governs not only millions of his own
underground subjects, but also secretly by the entire population of the surface
parts of the earth. He knows all the hidden springs of the universe, he comprehends the soul
every human being and reads the great book of fates.

The realm of Agartha stretches underground across the entire planet. And under the oceans too.
There is also an opinion that the peoples of Agarta were forced to switch to
underground residence after the universal cataclysm (flood) and immersion
under the water of land - the ancient continents that existed on the site of the present
oceans. As the Himalayan lamas say, in the caves of Agharta there is
a special glow that even allows you to grow vegetables and cereals. Chinese
Buddhists know that the ancient people, who took refuge after another
doomsday underground, lives in the caves of America. Here they are -
Ecuadorian dungeons of Erich von Denniken in the foothills of South American
Andes. Recall that the information gleaned from Chinese sources,
published in 1922, that is, exactly half a century before the indefatigable
the Swiss began his fantastic descent to a depth of 240 meters to
mysterious repositories of ancient knowledge, lost in hard-to-reach
places in the Ecuadorian province of Morona Santiago.

In the underground workshops tireless work is in full swing. All metals melt there.
and forged products from them. In unknown chariots or other perfect
devices rush underground inhabitants through tunnels laid deep
underground. The level of technical development of underground inhabitants exceeds
wildest imagination.

Dungeons of Cusco

An ancient legend is also associated with gold, telling about a secret entrance to a vast labyrinth of underground galleries under a collapsed building. As evidenced by the Spanish magazine Mas Alla, which specializes in describing all kinds of historical mysteries, this legend, in particular, tells that there are gigantic tunnels in length that cross the vast mountainous territory of Peru and reach Brazil and Ecuador. In the language of the Quechua Indians, they are called "chinkana", which literally means "maze". In these tunnels, the Incas, allegedly deceiving the Spanish conquistadors, hid a significant part of the gold wealth of their empire in the form of large art objects. Even a specific point in Cusco was indicated, where this labyrinth began and where the temple of the Sun once stood.

It was gold that glorified Cusco (there is still the only museum in the world dedicated to this noble metal). But it also destroyed him. The Spanish conquistadors, who conquered the city, plundered the temple of the Sun, and all its riches, including the golden statues in the garden, were loaded onto ships and sent to Spain. At the same time, there was also a rumor about the existence of underground halls and galleries, where the Incas allegedly hid part of the ritual gold items. This rumor is indirectly confirmed by the chronicle of the Spanish missionary Felipe de Pomares, who told in the 17th century about the fate of the Inca prince, who confessed to his Spanish wife Maria de Esquivel about the mission "sent down to him by the gods": to preserve the most valuable treasures of his ancestors.

Blindfolding his wife, the prince led her through one of the palaces into the dungeon. After a long journey, they ended up in a huge hall. The prince removed the bandage from his wife's eyes, and by the weak light of the torch she saw the golden statues of all the twelve kings of the Incas, reaching the height of a teenager; a lot of gold and silver dishes, figurines of birds and animals made of gold. As a loyal subject of the king and a devout Catholic, Maria de Esquivel denounced her husband to the Spanish authorities, describing her journey in detail. But the prince, sensing something unkind, disappeared. The last thread that could lead to the underground labyrinth of the Incas was cut off.

Archaeologists have found a network of mysterious tunnels in Malta

In Malta, in the city of Valletta, archaeologists have found a network of underground tunnels. Now researchers are scratching their heads: is it an underground city of the Order of Malta, or an ancient water supply or sewage system.
For many centuries it was believed that the Crusader Knights built an underground city on the Mediterranean island of Malta, and among the population there were rumors about the secret passages and military labyrinths of the Order of the Hospitallers.

Cave Ar Dalam

They built a garage, but found ancient tunnels
This winter, researchers found a network of tunnels under the historic center of the Maltese capital Valletta. These tunnels date from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It was then that the knights of one of the largest Christian military orders during the Crusades of the XI-XIII centuries were engaged in strengthening Valletta to repel Muslim attacks.

“Many said that there are passages and even an entire underground city. But the question is - where were these tunnels? Did they exist at all? Now we think we have found at least a small part of these underground structures,” said archaeologist Claude Borg, who took part in the excavations.

The tunnels were discovered on February 24 during an archaeological survey, which was carried out on Palace Square opposite the Palace of the Grand Master. The palace used to belong to the head of the Order of Malta, and today there are legislative institutions and the presidential office of Malta. Archaeological exploration was carried out before the construction of the underground parking.

Mdina

Underground city or aqueduct?
First, the workers found an underground reservoir right under the square. Near its bottom, at a depth of about 12 m, they found a hole in the wall - the entrance to the tunnel. It went under the square and then connected to other canals. An attempt to pass through these corridors was unsuccessful - they were blocked. All found corridors have a high enough vault so that an adult can easily pass there. However, researchers believe that this is only part of an extensive plumbing system.

Restoration architect Edward Said of Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna says the discovery is "just the tip of the iceberg." In his opinion, the found tunnels are part of the water supply and sewerage system, which also includes corridors where those who watched the tunnels and kept them in order could walk.

Construction of Valletta
The Order of Malta, founded in 1099, became famous for their victories over the Muslims during the Crusades. In 1530, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V gave the island of Malta to the knights. In 1565, the order, under the leadership of Grand Master La Valetta, was attacked by the Ottoman Turks, but managed to withstand the Great Siege of Malta.

However, this military experience forced them to start building a fortress in Malta, named after the master Valletta. The fortification was built on a hill, but there were not enough natural sources of water. According to Sad, the main goal of the builders of the city was to provide themselves with the necessary supplies in case of future sieges.

Saint Paul's Cave

“Soon they realized that the rainwater and springs that were at their disposal would not be enough,” the architect said.

Aqueduct and plumbing
Therefore, the builders erected an aqueduct, the remains of which have survived to this day: water entered the city from a valley located west of Valletta. The location of the tunnels under the Palace Square also confirms the idea that they were built precisely as a water pipe. Probably, a large fountain on Palace Square was supplied through underground channels and a reservoir. When the island was dominated by the British (1814-1964), the fountain was demolished.

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How the knights left
In 1798 Napoleon expelled the knights from Malta. Now the Order of Malta continues to exist, but its residence is in Rome.
“The fountain was a pretty important source of water for the people of the city,” Borg said.

According to Sed, archaeologists have found the remains of centuries-old lead pipes. The corridors connected to this tunnel may have been service passages used by plumbing engineers or so-called fountains.

“The fountain engineer, along with a team of workers, had to check the operation of the system and keep the fountain in good condition. They also turned off the fountain at night,” Sad said.

The underground city didn't exist?
The tales of secret military passages, according to Sed, have more basis. Under the fortress walls, there really could be secret corridors for warriors. However, according to Sed, most of the legends about the underground city are actually stories about the plumbing and sewerage system.

According to the researcher, Valletta's pipeline system was very progressive for its time. If, for example, Valletta is compared with such large cities of that time as London or Vienna, then the Maltese city of the 16th-17th centuries was much cleaner, while others were literally buried in mud.

After these finds, the Maltese government announced that the construction of an underground parking lot was being postponed. A new fountain is to be installed in the square, and the tunnels, Sed hopes, will subsequently be opened to the general public.

Mexico. Mitla. Mayan underground structures

According to the participants, these structures have a high quality finish and are more like a bunker. They also notice that according to some details it can be judged that the Indians did not build, but only restored one of these structures from the blocks lying around in the vicinity.

Underground Giza

Pyramids, the Sphinx, the ruins of ancient temples on the Giza Plateau have been striking the imagination of people for more than one millennium. And here is a new discovery. It has been established that huge, completely unexplored underground structures are hidden under the pyramids. Scientists suggest that the network of tunnels can extend for tens of kilometers.

Studying one of the tombs, scientists accidentally leaned on the wall, and the rock collapsed. Archaeologists have found the beginning of one of the tunnels. Later, there was confidence that the tunnels permeate the entire Giza plateau, on which the great pyramids stand. The chief curator of antiquities of Egypt said that a group of local and foreign archaeologists began work on compiling a kind of map of the underground passages under the pyramids. The work is carried out both on the ground and from the air using aerial photography. Exploring the tunnels will allow you to take a fresh look at the entire pyramid complex of Giza.

There are about 300 archaeological expeditions in Egypt. Their goal is to study and preserve already found objects. Now several groups of scientists are excavating a unique temple. It may even outshine the famous temple in Luxor. There is reason to believe that underground is a huge, previously unknown complex of buildings, palaces and temples. A big obstacle for scientists is that on the lands that covered these unique structures, houses have already been built, roads and communications have been laid.

Since the declassification of the new deep-seated radar 2 years ago, information about underground complexes and labyrinths from many places in the world began to appear. In places like Guatemala in South America, tunnels have been documented under the Tikal complex, leading across the country for 800 kilometers. The researchers note that it is possible with the help of these tunnels that the Maya avoided the complete destruction of their culture.

In early 1978, a similar radar (SIRA) was deployed in Egypt and incredible underground complexes under the Egyptian pyramids were discovered. A research agreement was signed with Egyptian President Sadat, and this secret project has been going on for 3 decades.

Dungeons Kolobros

The Huaraz plateau in the Western Cordillera has long been considered the secret refuge of the sorcerers of Peru. They say they can call the spirits of the dead and materialize them. They can sharply raise and lower the temperature of the surrounding air, which is necessary for the appearance of "shining carts controlled by heavenly patrons." Unfortunately, few of the strangers managed to become participants in these magical rites. One of them, the Englishman Joseph Ferrier, visited the mysterious underground settlement of Kolobros in 1922. And he was so shocked by what he saw that he was not too lazy to write a lengthy essay for the magazine "British Pathfinder", prefaced with an oath assurance: "I vouch for the absolute truthfulness of the stated."

Joseph Ferrier is silent about how he managed to become a guest of the system of underground labyrinths forbidden to outsiders, “very intricate and cramped, almost unsuitable for free breathing and movement, but with halls in which they are forced to live from birth to death. Because the life of each hereditary sorcerer has a special, nowhere else, except on the local plateau, does not occur meaning. What is this meaning? According to Ferrier, as follows:

“Underground sorcerers do not draw a line between the world of the living and the world of the dead. It is believed that both the living and the dead are only spirits. The only difference is that until the moment of death, the spirit of each of us languishes in the body shell. After death, it is released, becoming a spirit outside the body. Therefore, with special techniques, sorcerers achieve that the spirits that have taken on flesh can be next to us, among us. You can not believe it, but copies of these once living ones are found in labyrinths, walking among the living. I myself have repeatedly confused phantoms with people. Only the sorcerers of Kolobros do not confuse.

The rites of materialization, the creations of phantoms, are practiced in a large hall shaped like an isosceles triangle. The walls and ceiling are covered with copper plates. The floor is paved with wedge-shaped bronze slabs.

“As soon as I crossed the threshold of this ritual chamber,” writes Ferrier, “I immediately received eight or ten electric shocks. Doubts disappeared. The metallized room was not much different from the metallized internal volume of the capacitor bank, and, apparently, was needed by sorcerers-mediums for their afterlife rites. As I was convinced, when they stood up in their loincloths, clasped their hands, and began a song without words. My ears buzzed. I bit my tongue as I saw thin silver bands begin to spin around the heads of the sorcerers, scattering wet, cold sparkles. Glitter fell on the copper underfoot, forming a kind of cobweb, red as blood. Faintly visible resemblances of human bodies sprouted slowly from the web. They stood, vibrating unsteadily from the drafts of the galleries. The sorcerers, having opened their hands and stopped singing, began, dancing, to rub the resin columns installed in the center of the hall with shreds of wool. Several minutes passed. The air was saturated with electricity, began to flicker.

Having found the power of speech, I asked the sorcerer Aotuk, what will happen next? Aotuk said that further on, the shadows of the summoned dead will become solid, suitable for being in our world. The sorcerers of the Kolobros dungeon have achieved the impossible. Obeying the most ancient magical techniques, discharged, light as smoke, the shadows became completely indistinguishable from people - thinking, with beating hearts, capable of lifting and carrying loads weighing up to ten kilograms, sometimes more. The rites of "humanization of incorporeal spirits" seemed to Ferrier similar to the European medieval rituals of summoning the dead. Whether this is so can be judged by an excerpt from the essay:

“The ritual of luring the dead, the most dangerous for sorcerers, takes a lot of bodily strength. The best time for the Sabbath to take place is between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. The magical New Year in the labyrinths of Kolobros begins on November 1 with a “silent supper” around an altar table covered with a triangular canvas, on which there are a pewter goblet, a black cord and a censer, an iron trident and a knife, an hourglass, seven burning candles.

Each sorcerer wears on his chest a protective golden pictogram in the form of a grinning skull framed by four lead bones. As soon as it is closer to midnight, the upper vessel of the clock is freed from sand, the sorcerers burn incense and begin to invite guests to a meal. The trident at their approach begins to flash blue light, the knife - red. The cord is completely burned out. A flame is knocked out of the floor, following the contours of the Egyptian sacred cross, symbolizing eternal life. Throwing into the fire a wooden skull and bones - the sign of Osiris - the sorcerers loudly exclaim: "Rise from the dead!" The chief sorcerer pierces the flaming cross with a luminous trident. The flame is immediately extinguished. Candles go out too. Silence saturated with the smell of incense falls. A strong phosphorescent glow spreads under the ceiling.

“Go away, go away, shadows of the dead. We will not let you near us until you become alive for us. Let there be agreement between us. Let it be!” - sorcerers scream deafeningly. There are no more shadows. Instead of shadows, there are detailed bodily repetitions that can be consulted when important decisions need to be made.

Ask why underground clothing sorcerers prefer loincloths? Because negotiations with the resurrected thin the fabrics of clothes, no matter how good the fabrics are. I had a new linen suit. A few conversations with the resurrected, a few touches to them - and my suit fell into disrepair, as happens under the influence of decay.

Ferrier argues that the resurrected are not eternal. Each lingers among the sorcerers of Kolobros for a year at most: “When the figure of the “neighbor” fades, when his internal energy is depleted, a rite of return to the shadows is arranged for him - a quick, purely formal one. How else? Knowledge received. "Neighbour" is not needed. He, no matter how much the sorcerers would like, will not return again. However, it is from this fleeting rite that the main rite, the heavenly carts, originates. Ferrier writes nothing about the magical components of this action. He only reports that he saw how, in the sky over the Huaraz plateau, "fiery wheels swept through with a terrible roar and rattle and crashed into the edge of the Colobros canyon." The sorcerers did not allow him to meet with the "gods of the seventh heaven", referring to the fact that mere mortals cannot communicate with immortals. To Ferrier's objection that the sorcerers themselves, being mortals, still meet with the heavenly gods, the inhabitants of Kolobros replied that contacts were not frequent, they were carried out only at the initiative of the immortals, who made the meetings safe. Describing the level of knowledge of the gods, Ferrier says that they have gone so far ahead that they "have long forgotten what the best minds of mankind are just beginning to think about." Even experienced speleologists do not dare to visit the labyrinths of Kolobros now. One of them, American Michael Stern, dreams of going there. The expedition is planned for the summer of 2008, not paying attention to the increasing natural anomalies. These are local earthquakes, and night above-ground glows, and mud geysers in the labyrinth area, and flights of fireballs, and "landing" of ghosts with pear-shaped heads. The locals have no doubt that the dungeons of Kolobros are still inhabited. The way there by a stranger without the knowledge of the owners is ordered. Stern persists: “I am not a slave to superstition, I do not believe in sorcerers. For me, Kolobros is just a system of deep, difficult to pass caves, nothing more.” At the beginning of the last century, Joseph Ferrier also thought so ...

Agarthi (Agarthi) - underground country

The only and still unconfirmed sources of information about the mysterious Agharti are the publication of the Pole F. Ossendovsky, a member of the Council of Ministers in the government of Kolchak, who during the civil war in the Siberian government held the post of director of the Credit Office2, who later fled to Mongolia, and, similar to the description of this center, and, published twelve years earlier, Saint-Yves d'Alveidre's The Mission of India. Both authors argue about the existence of the underworld - a spiritual center that has a non-human origin, and stores the Primordial wisdom, passing it through the centuries from generation to generation by secret societies. The inhabitants of the underworld are far superior in their technical development to humanity, they have mastered unknown energies and are connected with all continents through underground passages. A comparative analysis of both versions of the myth about Agharti was carried out in his work “King of the World” by the French scientist Rene Guenon: “If there really are two versions of this story, coming from sources very distant from each other, then it was interesting to find them and make a thorough comparison.”

The French esoteric thinker, the Marquis Saint-Yves d'Alveidre (1842-1909), left a significant mark on history by writing books on occult ancient history3 and formulating a new universal law of history and human society, which he called "Synarchy". The ideas of the new world order, set forth in the teachings of Saint-Yves "Synarchy", attracted the attention of the future leaders of the National Socialist Party in Germany. According to Saint-Yves, all information about Agartha was received by him "from the Afghan prince Harji Sharif, the envoy of the World Occult Government" and the center of Agartha is located in the Himalayas. This is a whole cave center with a population of 20 million people - “the most secret sanctuary of the Earth”, keeping in its depths the annals of mankind for the entire time of its evolution on this earth for 556 centuries, written on stone tablets4. The chronology of mankind and the prescription of the teachings of Saint-Yves, based on Indian sources, elevates to the era of the progenitor of mankind, the legendary Manu, i.e. 55,647 years ago. In his literary work, oriented, as he wrote, "for educated people, the most enlightened secular people and statesmen," Saint-Yves describes in detail and convincingly state structure Agharti and gives quite original details, for example, such as:

“The modern mystical name of the Rama Cycle Sanctuary was given to it approximately 5100 years ago, after the schism of Irshu. This name is "Agarta", which means: "inaccessible to violence", "unattainable to Anarchy". It is enough for my readers to know that in some regions of the Himalayas, among 22 temples depicting 22 arcana of Hermes and 22 letters of some sacred alphabets5, Agartha constitutes the mystical Zero (0). "Unfindable".
* “None of our terrible punishment systems apply in Agharta, and there are no prisons. There is no death penalty. Begging, prostitution, drunkenness, cruel individualism are completely unknown in Agharti. The division into castes is unknown.
* “Among the tribes expelled from the great University (Agarta) there is one wandering tribe, which, starting from the 15th century, shows its strange experiments to all Europe. This is the true origin of the gypsies (Bohami - in Sankr., "Get away from me").
* Agartha can follow the Souls on all the ascending levels of the worlds up to the extreme limits of our solar system. In some cosmic periods one can see and speak with the dead. This is one of the mysteries of the ancient Ancestor Cult."
* The sages of Agartha "tested on our Planet the boundaries of the last flood and determined the possible starting point for its renewal in thirteen or fourteen centuries."
* "The founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni, was initiated into the Sanctuary of Agartta, but he could not take his notes out of Agartta and subsequently dictated to his first disciples only what his memory was able to retain."
* “Not a single initiate can take away from Agarta the original texts of her scientific works, because, as I have already said, they are engraved on stone in the form of characters incomprehensible to the crowd. The Threshold of the Sanctuary is inaccessible without the will of the disciple. Its basement is built magically, in various ways in which the Divine word plays a role, as in all ancient temples.
* "The sacred texts, due to political conditions, have been systematically changed everywhere, with the exception of only one Agartha, where all the lost secrets of the Hebrew-Egyptian text of our own Holy Scriptures and the keys to their mysteries are preserved"

Saint-Yves does not give an answer to the question where Agarta is located, the text contains only one indirect indication that Agart symbolically touches Afghanistan with his head, and with his feet, i.e. its foot rests on Burma. This territory corresponds to the area of ​​the Himalayan mountains, little explored at that time. The amazing description of the most secret sanctuary on Earth, which has lost ancient knowledge, subsequently inspired both various scientists and adventurers, as well as statesmen from different countries, who plan to send expeditions to the little-explored regions of Central Asia, in particular, to establish an alliance with Agartha.

Incredible Facts

Many have heard that people sometimes go to live in caves, abandoned mines or underground tunnels. In the literature one can often find tales of underground people. However, underground cities exist not only in novels and films. They are very real.

Underground cities were built primarily to protect against enemies, wild animals, weather, and even illegal activities. find out about the most interesting underground cities in the world and interesting facts related to them.

1) Secret underground city in Beijing, China

Since 1969 and over the next decade by order Mao Tse-tung in Beijing began to build an underground emergency shelter for the government. This shelter stretched under Beijing for a distance 30 kilometers. The giant city was built during the period of the Sino-Soviet split, and its only purpose was to defend in case of war.

Entrance to the Beijing Underground City

This underground city contained shops, restaurants, schools, theatres, hairdressers and even a roller skating rink. In the city one could also find about thousands of bomb shelters, and he could simultaneously accommodate up to 40 percent residents of Beijing in case of war.

Today, tourists roam the underground streets of Beijing

There were rumors that houses in Beijing have secret hatches, which allowed residents to quickly descend into this underground complex in case of danger. In 2000, the giant underground city was officially opened to tourists, and some of its shelters are used as youth hostels.

2) Putin's underground city Yamantau, Russia

Close to ski resort "Abzakovo", 60 kilometers from Magnitogorsk, which is in the south of the Urals, according to some sources, is located secret underground city for members of the Russian government. The secret base is covered with a lot of rumors and assumptions, including, they say that this object was started to be built during the Cold War.

Ski resort "Abzakovo", South Ural, Russia

President Putin visits ski resort "Abzakovo" quite often, however, he never answered the questions why this particular place attracts the president so much. Rumors spread that it was not skiing that was the main reason for coming, but construction of a secret underground city on Mount Yamantau.

Mount Yamantau in Bashkortostan

Talking about the city in the 1990s in the American and other foreign press. Foreign journalists tried to get at least some details from officials, but their attempts were unsuccessful. It is very likely that the articles themselves were based more on hearsay than on real facts.

3) Underground city near Moscow, Russia

Everyone knows that Moscow is all cut up underground tunnels, passages and subway structures, which in Soviet times was considered the most beautiful, fastest and largest metro in the world. Much has changed today, but people still talk about mysteries of the underground city near Moscow- a series of underground bunkers built back in Soviet times, and maybe even earlier.

"Secret Subway" Moscow really exists and is intended, first of all, for the military and members of the government in case of a nuclear war or other dangerous situations. Secret lines connect major government facilities, including the Kremlin, the building of the Ministry of Defense and so on.

Secret subway lines, according to some very curious researchers of this issue, no different from the main lines. Why not connect some of these lines to the main lines, given how busy the Moscow metro is today? Apparently, there are reasons for this, and the underground city is waiting in the wings.

4) Rock City Setenil de las Bodegas, Spain

Unlike many other underground cities, this city in Spain lives a full life and accommodates about 3 thousand inhabitants. Some of the houses in this city are not completely underground, but are carved into the rock, which makes the city landscapes especially unusual. The houses seem to be buried in stones.

Thanks to such unusual buildings, the town attracts many tourists who come here to see unique cave houses. In ancient times, the city served as a fortress.

5) Cave city Chufut-Kale, Crimea

This cave city, located in the Crimea, was built during the early Middle Ages, and although most of it turned into ruins, some ancient buildings still remained: caves, the mausoleum of the daughter of Khan Tokhtamysh, gates and others.

Entrances to the underground dwellings of the ghost town of Chufut-Kale

Initially, the city was inhabited Alans- Iranian-speaking tribes, later moved here Cumans, a in the 14th century started flocking here Karaites, and by the time of the formation of the Crimean Khanate, most likely, they were the main inhabitants. At one time, the khan of the independent Crimea even permanently lived in Chufut-Kale. Late 19th century the city was completely abandoned by the inhabitants.

6) Secret cellars of Moose-Jo gangsters, Canada

Underground cities were sometimes built not at all for protection during military conflicts, but for protection during harsh weather conditions. For example, the city of Moose Jo in central Canada has a series of tunnels and underpasses that were built to keep workers warm. However, these underground premises very soon after construction began to be used for illegal purposes.

Tunnels Moose Jaw chosen criminal figures, smugglers and bandits during Prohibition in the United States. The underground city turned into a mini Las Vegas and hosted illegal establishments where casinos and prostitution flourished. They say that Chicago mobster Al Capone had something to do with these basements, so they began to call them "Chicago Connection".

Today in the "Chicago connection" - a museum where there is a weapons room, a wine cellar and many interesting things from the time of gangsters

7) The Mysterious City of the Gods in Egypt

Great Pyramids of Giza- the only one of the wonders of the ancient world that has come down to us. Many researchers believe that something incredible is located under the Giza plateau, namely series of underground tunnels and chambers.

Beginning since 1978, the researchers began to map out the outlines of a massive underground complex that could potentially be a huge underground city.

Known by the name "City of the Gods", this city still hides many secrets. Since it is located directly under one of the most important historical monuments in the world, the integrity of which no one will disturb, it is unlikely that these secrets will be easily opened in the near future.

Opponents of the theory of the City of the Gods are convinced that there is no underground city under the pyramids, and the story about it was invented, to attract more tourists.

8) Coober Pedy Underground Gem City, Australia

coober pedy is a city that is still inhabited. It is located in the desert part of central Australia, and is home to about 1600 inhabitants. The city is considered "capital of opal", since more of this semi-precious stone is mined here than anywhere else on the planet.

Entrance to the Coober Pedy dungeon: it's hard to imagine what's hiding underground

The city is located underground houses - dugouts, which were dug to protect themselves from the scorching desert sun, as well as to protect children from wild dingoes and local natives.

Opal deposits were first discovered in Coober Pedy in 1915, since then these places have been inhabited by gemstone hunters. If you have an opal jewelry, there is every chance that this the stone was brought from Australia, or rather, from the mines of Coober Pedy. Under the ground you can find not only the dwellings of local residents, but also restaurants, shops and even a church and a cemetery!

9) Island City with Underground Restaurants Kish, Iran

In the dungeon Kish city in Iran hides a mysterious city that is so shrouded in mystery that it doesn't even have an official name. Some people call this city Kariz, however, tourists often call it the Underground City of Kish. Underground premises have a total area of ​​about 10,000 square meters.

This dungeon is more than 2.5 thousand years old and was originally used as reservoir and water supply system. Like many other ancient cities, this city has been renovated and turned into a tourist site. Today here you can find cozy underground restaurants, shops and other establishments.

10) Burlington Underground Bunker, England

There is also a secret underground city in England, it got the name Burlington. This city was built in the 1950s for the British government to be able to take cover in the event of a nuclear war. The dungeon is not very large - only a thousand square meters, but it could easily fit about 4 thousand people.

The city had underground highways, railway stations, hospitals, and even an underground lake for storing drinking water. There was also a BBC station in the city so that the Prime Minister could address those who were left upstairs. Burlington is on standby until until 1991 after which the Cold War ended.

Which city has an underground tram?

Underground cities and tunnels can be used by underground transport, in particular trams and trolleybuses, and not just metro trains. Underground trams are available in many cities, for example:

Krivoy Rog, Ukraine

High-speed underground tram in Volgograd, Russia

It is known that many Russian rich people build, in addition to ground dwellings, entire underground bunkers, mainly for personal safety.

Plan of underground Moscow. Soon the main Russian city will grow not up, but down

In Yakutia (Eastern Siberia), on the site of a man-made mine crater, they want to build an underground city Eco-City 2020 with a capacity of 100 thousand people

Remnant: From the Ashes is a 3rd person co-op shooter with a procedurally generated world that pushes players through it multiple times. Each new playthrough of the campaign leads to a new set of dungeons for players to explore in different worlds. To help you with finding and passing through these locations, we decided to publish this small guide.

Useful notes:

• The land is divided into four main levels: the city area in front of the church (city area #1), the Church, the city area after the church (city area #2), and the Guardian's Tower. Both the Church and the Guardian's Tower are fixed locations, as they are related to the storyline.
• City District #1 will always have the following layout: one mini-boss dungeon (Shadow/Ripper), one no-boss dungeon and Subway.
• City Area #2 will always have the following layout: one mini-boss dungeon, one no-boss dungeon, and a world boss.
• You can determine the type of dungeon you are entering by examining its passage. Each dungeon has a unique environment, which is directly reflected in its passage.

Earth Dungeons with Bosses

There are a total of six bosses that can be encountered on Earth. Of these six, four are found in dungeons, and two are world opponents. In one playthrough, you may well encounter two dungeon bosses and one world boss.

• Sunken Passage (Sewer Entrance): Go through it to reach another area called the Grinder. Here you will face a boss called the Ripper.
• Hidden Sanctuary (Sewer Passage): Pass through this area to reach an area called the Infested Well. Here lives the boss, whose name is Shadow.
• Cutthroat Canal (Sewer Passage): This is the bandit area. Walk through it to get to the Depot. Here you will encounter a boss named Brabus. You can exchange a pocket watch with him for bandit armor.
• Tangled Passage (a crack-like passage): go through it to reach an area called "Artery". Shredder lives here.
• Choking Hollow (tunnel-like passageway): This area contains the world boss, Ent.
• Ash Yard (tunnel-like passageway): This area contains the world boss, Incendrous.

Earth Dungeons Without Bosses

In these locations you have to complete various tasks to unlock useful items. These dungeons usually include stages where the heroes need to fend off several waves of opponents.

• Hidden Grotto (Sewer Passage): Obtain the Huntress Key from the respective character at the checkpoint at the beginning of the dungeon. Then enter the dungeon and go through it to get to the locked door. Open it with the previously received key and take away all the valuable things, including the Huntress Pistol.
• Dump (Sewer Passage): This location is home to an NPC called the Mad Merchant. You can trade with him without mentioning his mask. If you keep talking about the item on his face, he will attack you. Kill him to get the Wicker Mask. Then speak to the Weeping Tree to unlock the Woodskin talent.
• Subway: This is a story dungeon that you will definitely have to go down to. You must go through it to get to the Root Mother in the Church.
• Field of Sorrow (Crack Passage): This dungeon has no quest items and ends with a dead end checkpoint.
• Warren (Crack Passage): Go through the new area to get to Land's End. Help the two Lises defend themselves against the coming attack of the Roots.
• Gallows (tunnel-like passageway): You will need to survive waves of enemies while waiting for the metamorphosis to take place. Once you complete the quest, you will be able to interact with the Root Temple to craft a set of Chain Armor.
• Bone Pass (Sewer Passage): Find and talk to the cultist to get Crown Root. Once that's done, destroy the two Root Nodes and then kill the cultist to get a ring of Wicker Thorns.
• Monkey Key: A dungeon with a locked door that can be opened with the Monkey Key.

This is the entire list of dungeons that you can visit on Earth when playing through Remnant: From the Ashes. Once again, we note that you will not be able to visit all at once.

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In many regions of the globe there are ancient structures, created by no one knows who and for what purpose. Given the limited technical capabilities of our ancestors, it is simply impossible to believe that they were built by people of the Stone or Bronze Age.

In Turkey (Cappadocia) a huge complex of underground cities was discovered, located on several tiers and connected by tunnels. Underground shelters were built by an unknown people in ancient times. Eric von Däniken in his book “In the Footsteps of the Almighty” describes these shelters as follows: “... gigantic underground cities were discovered, designed for many thousands of inhabitants. The most famous of them are located under the modern village of Derinkuyu. The entrances to the underworld are hidden under the houses.

Here and there in the area there are ventilation holes leading far inland. The dungeon is cut through by tunnels connecting rooms. The first floor from Derinkuyu village covers an area of ​​four square kilometers, and the fifth floor room can accommodate ten thousand people. It is estimated that three hundred thousand people can simultaneously fit in this underground complex.

Derinkuyu's underground structures alone have fifty-two ventilation shafts and fifteen thousand entrances. The largest mine reaches a depth of eighty-five meters. The lower part of the city served as a reservoir for water ...

To date, thirty-six underground cities have been discovered in this area. Not all

they are of the size of Kaimakli or Derinkuyu, but their plans were carefully crafted. People who know this area well believe that there are still many underground structures. All the cities known today are interconnected by tunnels.

These underground shelters with huge stone latches, warehouses, kitchens and ventilation shafts are shown in Eric von Däniken's documentary "In the Footsteps of the Almighty". The author of the film suggested that the ancient people hid in them from some threat that came from heaven.

Sahara Desert. Many kilometers of tunnels are hidden under its surface.

In many regions of our planet, there are numerous mysterious underground structures of an incomprehensible purpose to us. near the Algerian border (10 ° west longitude and 25 ° north latitude) underground there is a whole system of tunnels and underground communications, which are cut into the rock. The main adits are 3 meters high and 4 meters wide. In some places, the distance between the tunnels is less than 6 meters. The average length of the tunnels is 4.8 kilometers, and their total length (together with auxiliary adits) is 1,600 kilometers!

The modern Channel Tunnel looks like child's play compared to these structures. There is an assumption that these underground corridors were intended to supply water to the desert regions of the Sahara. But it would be much easier to dig irrigation canals on the surface of the earth. In addition, in those distant times, the climate in this region was humid, there was heavy rainfall - and there was no particular need for irrigation of the land.

To dig these passages underground, it was necessary to extract 20 million cubic meters of rock - this is many times the volume of all the built Egyptian pyramids. The work is truly titanic. It is almost impossible to carry out the construction of underground communications in such a volume using even modern technical means. Scientists attribute these underground communications to the fifth millennium BC. e., that is, by the time when our ancestors only learned to build primitive huts and use stone tools.

Who, then, built these grandiose tunnels and for what purpose?

In the first half of the XVI century. Francisco Pizarro discovered the entrance to a cave in the Peruvian Andes, covered with rock blocks. It was located at an altitude of 6770 meters above sea level on Mount Huascaran.

A speleological expedition organized in 1971, while examining a system of tunnels consisting of several levels, discovered hermetic doors, which, despite their massiveness, easily turned to open the entrance. The floor of the underground passages is paved with blocks treated in such a way as to prevent slipping (the tunnels leading to the ocean have a slope of about 14 °). According to various estimates, the total length of communications is from 88 to 105 kilometers. It is assumed that earlier the tunnels led to the island of Guanape, but it is rather difficult to verify this hypothesis, because the passages end in a lake of salty sea water.

In 1965, between the cities of Galaquiza, San Antonio and Yopi, Argentinean Juan Moric discovered a system of tunnels and ventilation shafts with a total length of several hundred kilometers! The entrance to this system looks like a neat cut in the rock, the size of a barn gate. The tunnels have a rectangular section with varying widths and sometimes turn at right angles. The walls of underground utilities are covered with a kind of glaze, as if they were treated with some kind of solvent or exposed to high temperatures. Interestingly, no rock dumps from the tunnels were found near the exit.

The underground passage successively leads to underground platforms and huge halls located at a depth of 240 meters, with ventilation holes 70 centimeters wide. In the center of one of the halls measuring 110×130 meters there is a table and seven thrones made of an unknown material similar to plastic. A whole gallery of large golden figures depicting animals was also found there: elephants, crocodiles, lions, camels, bison, bears, monkeys, wolves, jaguars, crabs, snails and even dinosaurs. The researchers also found a “library” consisting of several thousand metal embossed plates measuring 45 × 90 centimeters, covered with incomprehensible signs. Priest Father Carlo Crespi, who conducted archaeological research there with the permission of the Vatican, claims that all the finds made from the tunnels “belong to the pre-Christian era, and most of the symbols and prehistoric images are older than the time of the Flood.

In 1972, Erik von Daniken met with Juan Moric and persuaded him to show the ancient tunnels. The researcher agreed, but with one condition - not to take pictures underground labyrinths. In his book, Daniken writes:

“... To better understand what was happening, our guides made us walk the last 40 km. We are very tired; the tropics have exhausted us. Finally, we came to a hill that has many entrances into the depths of the Earth.

The entrance we chose was almost invisible due to the vegetation covering it. It was wider than a railway station. We passed through a tunnel about 40 meters wide; its flat ceiling showed no signs of connecting devices.

The entrance to it was located at the foot of the hill of Los Tayos, and at least the first 200 m went simply down towards the center of the massif. The height of the tunnel was about 230 cm, there was a floor partially covered with bird droppings, a layer of about 80 cm. Among the debris and droppings, metal and stone figures were constantly coming across. The floor was made of worked stone.

We lit our way with carbide lamps. There were no traces of soot in these caves. It was said that, according to legend, their inhabitants illuminated the road with golden mirrors that reflected sunlight, or with a system of collecting light using emeralds. This last solution reminded us of the laser principle.

The walls are also covered with very well-crafted stones. The admiration caused by the buildings of Machu Picchu is reduced when you see this work. The stone is smoothly polished and has straight edges. The ribs are not rounded. The junctions of the stones are barely visible. Judging by some of the processed blocks lying on the floor, there were no subsidences, since the surrounding walls are finished and completely finished. What is it - the inaccuracy of the creators, who, having finished the work, left pieces behind them, or did they think to continue their work?

The walls are almost completely covered with reliefs of animals - both modern and extinct. Dinosaurs, elephants, jaguars, crocodiles, monkeys, crayfish - all headed towards the center. We found a carved inscription - a square with rounded corners, with a side of about 12 cm. Groups of geometric figures varied between two and four units of various lengths, which appeared to be placed in a vertical and horizontal form. From one to another this order was not repeated. Is it a number system or a computer program? We also remembered radio circuits.

Just in case, the expedition was equipped with an oxygen supply system, but it was not needed. Even today, the ventilation ducts cut vertically into the hill are well preserved and have performed their function. When exiting to the surface, some of them are covered with lids. It is difficult to detect them from the outside, only sometimes a bottomless well is shown among the groups of stones.

The ceiling in the tunnel is low, without relief. Outwardly, it looks like it was made of rough processed stone. However, it is soft to the touch. Can't be! We touched it again - in fact, the feeling did not deceive us. Suddenly we began to realize that we were in a different atmosphere. The heat and damp have disappeared, making the journey easier. We reached a wall of cut stone that separated our path. On both sides of the wide tunnel through which we descended, a path opened to a narrower passage. We moved on to one of those that went to the left. We later discovered that another passage led in the same direction. We walked about 1200 m with these passages, only to find a stone wall blocking our path. Our guide effortlessly extended his hand to a certain point, and at the same time two stone doors 35 cm wide opened.

Holding our breath, we stopped at the mouth of a huge cave with dimensions that cannot be determined with the naked eye. One side was about 5 m high. The dimensions of the cave were about 110 x 130 m, although its shape is not rectangular.

The conductor whistled, and various shadows crossed the "living room". Birds, butterflies flew, no one understood where. Various tunnels have opened up. Our guide said that this Great Room is always clean. Everywhere on the walls are painted animals and drawn squares. Moreover, they all connect with each other.

There was a table and several chairs in the middle of the Living Room. Men sit down, leaning back; but these chairs are for taller people. They are designed for statues, about 2 m high. At first glance, the table and chairs are made of simple stone. However, if touched, they will be made of plastic material, almost worn and completely smooth. The table, approximately 3×6 m in size, is supported only by a cylindrical base 77 cm in diameter. The thickness of the top is about 30 cm. There are five chairs on one side of it, and six or seven on the other.

If you touch the inside of the table top, you can feel the texture and coldness of the stone, making you think that it is covered with an unknown material.

First, considering our visit over, the guide led us to another hidden door. Once again, two sections of stone slid open effortlessly, revealing yet another smaller living space. It had a mass of shelves with volumes, and in the middle between them there was a passage, like in a modern book warehouse. They, too, were made of some kind of cold material, soft, but with edges that almost cut into the skin. Stone, petrified wood, wood or metal? Hard to understand.

Each such volume was 90 cm high and 45 cm and contained about 400 processed gold pages.

These books have metal covers 4mm thick and are darker in color than the pages themselves. They are not sewn, but fastened in some other way. The imprudence of one of the visitors drew our attention to one more detail. He grabbed the open volume, picking up one of the metal pages, which, despite being a fraction of a millimeter thick, was strong and even. A notebook without a cover fell to the floor and, when you tried to pick it up, wrinkled like paper.

Each page was engraved, so jewel-like that it looked like it was written in ink. Maybe this is an underground storage of some space library?

The pages of these volumes are divided into various squares with rounded corners. Here, perhaps, it is much easier to understand these hieroglyphs, abstract symbols, as well as stylized human figures - heads with rays, hands with three, four and five fingers. Among these symbols, one is similar to a large carved inscription found in the museum of the Church of Our Lady of Cuenca. It probably belongs to the golden objects supposedly taken from Los Tayos. It is 52 cm long, 14 cm wide and 4 cm deep, with 56 different characters that could well be an alphabet. Some people think that the text of the book in this library should be read in groups of phrases.

A visit to Cuenca proved to be very important for us, because we could see the objects exhibited by Father Crespi in the Church of Our Lady, and also listen to the legends about the local white gods, fair-haired and blue-eyed, who visited this country from time to time.

In their white tunics, they looked like North American hippies, except for their bearded faces. Their residence is unknown, although it is assumed that they lived in an unknown city near Cuenca. Although the dark-skinned indigenous people believe that they bring happiness, they are afraid of their mental power, as they practice telepathy and are said to be able to levitate objects without contact. Their average height is 185 cm for women and 190 for men. The chairs of the Great Living Room in Los Tayos will definitely suit them ... ".

Numerous illustrations of amazing underground finds can be seen in von Daniken's book "Gold of the Gods". When Juan Moric reported his find, a joint Anglo-Ecuadorian expedition was organized to explore the tunnels. Her honorary adviser, Neil Armstrong, said of the results: "Signs of human life underground have been found, and this may prove to be the world's major archaeological discovery of the century." After this interview, there was no more information about the mysterious dungeons, and the area where they are located is now closed to foreigners.

Shelters for protection from the cataclysms that hit the Earth during its approach to the neutron star, as well as from all sorts of disasters that accompanied the wars of the gods, were built all over the globe. Dolmens, which are a kind of stone dugouts, covered with a massive slab and with a small round opening for entry, were intended for the same purposes as underground structures, that is, they served as a refuge. These stone structures are found in different parts of the world - India, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Sicily, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Korea, Siberia, Georgia, Azerbaijan. At the same time, dolmens located in different parts of our planet are surprisingly similar to each other, as if they were made according to a standard design. According to the legends and myths of various peoples, they were built by dwarfs, as well as people, but the latter turned out to be more primitive buildings, since they used roughly processed stones.

During the construction of these structures, vibration-damping layers under the foundation were sometimes used, which protected the dolmens from earthquakes. For example, an ancient structure located in Azerbaijan near the village of Gorikidi has two damping tiers. In the Egyptian pyramids, chambers filled with sand were also found, which served the same purpose.

The accuracy of fitting the massive stone slabs of the dolmens is also striking. Even with the help of modern technical means, it is very difficult to assemble a dolmen from ready-made blocks. Here is how A. Formozov describes an attempt to transport one of the dolmens in the book “Monuments of Primitive Art”: “In 1960, it was decided to transport some dolmen from Esheri to Sukhumi - to the courtyard of the Abkhazian museum. They chose the smallest one and brought a crane to it. No matter how they fixed the loops of the steel cable to the cover plate, it did not move.

A second crane was called. Two cranes removed a multi-ton monolith, but they were unable to lift it onto a truck. Exactly a year the roof lay in Esheri, waiting for a more powerful mechanism to arrive in Sukhumi. In 1961, with the help of a new mechanism, all the stones were loaded onto vehicles. But the main thing was ahead: to reassemble the house. The reconstruction has been carried out only partially. The roof was lowered onto four walls, but they could not turn it so that their edges fit into the grooves on the inner surface of the roof. In ancient times, the plates were driven so close to each other that the blade of a knife could not fit between them. Now there is a big gap.

At present, numerous ancient catacombs have been discovered in various regions of the planet, it is not known when and by whom dug. There is an assumption that these underground multi-tiered galleries were formed in the process of extracting stone for the construction of buildings. But why was it necessary to expend titanic labor, gouging out blocks of the strongest rocks in narrow underground galleries, when there are similar rocks nearby, moreover, located directly on the earth's surface?

Ancient catacombs were found near Paris, in Italy (Rome, Naples), Spain, on the islands of Sicily and Malta, in Syracuse, Germany, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Crimea. The Russian Society for Speleological Research (ROSI) has done a great job of compiling the Cadastre of artificial caves and underground architectural structures on the territory of the former Soviet Union. At present, information has already been collected on 2,500 catacomb-type objects belonging to different eras. The most ancient dungeons date back to the 14th millennium BC. e (Kamnaya Mohyla tract in the Zaporozhye region).

The Parisian catacombs are a network of winding artificial underground galleries. Their total length is from 187 to 300 kilometers. The most ancient tunnels existed before the birth of Christ. In the Middle Ages (XII century), limestone and gypsum began to be mined in the catacombs, as a result of which the network of underground galleries was significantly expanded. Later, the dungeons were used to bury the dead. Currently, the remains of about 6 million people are buried near Paris.

The dungeons of Rome may be very ancient. Under the city and its environs, more than 40 catacombs were found, carved in porous volcanic tuff. The length of the galleries, according to the most conservative estimates, ranges from 100 to 150 kilometers, and possibly more than 500 kilometers. Under the Roman Empire, dungeons were used for the burial of the dead: in the galleries of the catacombs and numerous individual burial chambers, there are from 600,000 to 800,000 burials. At the beginning of our era, churches and chapels of early Christian communities were located in the catacombs.

Around 700 catacombs have been discovered in the vicinity of Naples, consisting of tunnels, galleries, caves and secret passages. The oldest dungeons date back to 4500 BC. e. Speleologists have discovered underground water pipes, aqueducts and water tanks, rooms where food supplies were previously stored. During World War II, the catacombs were used as bomb shelters.

One of the attractions of the ancient Maltese culture is the Hypogeum, an underground catacomb-type shelter that goes several floors deep. For centuries, it was hollowed out in solid granite rock using stone tools. Already in our time, on the lower tier of this underground city, researchers have discovered tens of thousands of human skeletons. The purpose of this building is still a mystery.

Perhaps the mysterious underground structures were used by people as shelters from various cataclysms that have occurred on Earth more than once. The descriptions of the grandiose battles between aliens that took place in the distant past on our planet, preserved in various sources, suggest that the dungeons could serve as bomb shelters or a bunker.

Caves and dungeons have always been a part of human life. We had a thousand reasons to dig them up. We dig for cultural treasures, dig mines for archeological discoveries. We use underground caves for entertainment and shelter from natural and man-made disasters. We connect the continents with tunnels, they are used for their dark deeds by smugglers.

Today we will visit various interesting underground worlds.

1. Near the town of Ingleton in England, at a depth of 100 meters, there is the largest cave in Britain called Gaping Gill. It is comparable in size to York Minster in the English city of York, which competes with Cologne Cathedral for the title of the largest medieval temple in northern Europe. (Photo by Oli Scarff):

2. In Frankfurt, which stands on the Main River, an underground tunnel under the river is under construction. That's just lowered down the drilling rig. (Photo by Boris Roessler):

3. How about underground billiards in the underground bar at the Desert Cave Hotel in Australia? (Photo by Mark Kolbe):

4. Fontanelle Cemetery - an ossuary arranged in natural caves at the foot of the Materdei Hill, near Naples. The Fontanelle Cemetery is an ossuary built in natural caves at the foot of the Materdei Hill, near Naples. (Photo by Cesare Abbate):

5. Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, 4.55 km long, dug in 1822-1826. for the water supply of Parisian fountains and to facilitate river navigation. From the Seine, the canal passes along the border of the 4th and 12th districts, first as the Arsenal reservoir, whose port can accommodate up to 180 ships, then goes underground in front of Place de la Bastille, coming to the surface near the Place de la République , after Stalingradskaya Square. (Photo by Miguel Medina):

6. Famous cave dwellers - bats in a cave in Mikulov.

Almost all bats are nocturnal, and during the day they sleep, either hanging upside down, or hiding in cracks in trees, rocks, or in cracks in buildings. Cavities in trees, caves, grottoes and various artificial constructions both above and below ground. (Photo by Radek Mica):

7. Underground bath. The To Sua Ocean Trench can be found in the village of Lotofaga on the south coast of Upolu Island in Samoa. You will have to go down to the natural pool to a depth of 30 meters from the surface of the earth. (Photo by Mark Kolbe):

8. The Cave of Parastas (or "Blue Cave") is so named because of the sea seals that live inside. It is considered one of the most beautiful caves in the Mediterranean, quite capable of competing with the famous cave in Capri. You can get into it only on a small boat, but inside there is a rich scattering of stalactites that illuminate the cave, reflecting the sun's rays. (Photo by Alkis Konstantinidis | Reuters):

9. Puebla is one of the oldest cities in Mexico, founded around 1531. Beneath the city is a network of ancient tunnels. (Photo by Joel Merino):

10. An underground bunker in Northern Ireland in case of a nuclear war. Its construction was completed in 1990. True, only 235 people can fit here. (Photo by Charles McQuillan):

11. Speaking of the dungeon, one cannot help but look into the St. Petersburg metro. (Photo by Cara Anna):

12. The first underground park in New York. Residents of the city can have a refuge from the chaos of the city just under the streets of the Lower East Side. This area will be able to park has special mirrors that capture sunlight on the roof. It is then channeled through a system of mirror pipes and distributed through a network of special solar panels. (Photo by Mary Altaffer):

13. The underground enterprises of the Third Reich were a measure that contributed to the protection of the most important enterprises for the conduct of the war from destruction during massive Allied bomber raids. This one is located near Walbrzych, in southwestern Poland. (Photo by Kacper Pempel | Reuters):

14. Beautiful cave in Hebei province in northern China. (Photo by Liu Huanyu | Xinhua Press):

15. Bangkok's underground metro is officially called the Capital Electric Train. A worker inspects a tunnel under the Chao Phraya River at the Mass Rapid Transit metro station in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha | Reuters):

16. Lots of salt. Salt mine in Philippsthal (Werra), Germany. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes):

17. Hiding from the war. Family underground shelter in the suburbs of Aleppo. (Photo by Karam Al-Masri):

18. Almost like an Alien's lair. Metro construction in Rennes, France. The Rennes metro has been operating since March 15, 2002. It is based on Siemens VAL technology and is fully automatic, without drivers. (Photo by Jean-Sebastien Evrard):

19. Another photo of the largest cave in Britain Gaping Gill. (Photo by Oli Scarff).