r/AlternativeHistory • u/TravellingSamuel231 • 10h ago
Discussion the textbook story on why ancient underground cities like derinkuyu were built falls apart when you look at what the CIA buried in 1966
i've always been fascinated by derinkuyu in turkey (that massive underground city carved 18 stories deep into solid rock that could hold 20,000 people) and the official history says primitive locals carved it with hand tools just to hide from raiders, which never really made sense to me considering it has deep ventilation shafts and giant rolling stone doors that only bolt from the inside
you don't carve an underground city for 20,000 people just to hide from guys on horses for a few days... while i was reading up on the tunnels last night, i stumbled across an article talking about a weird 1966 FOIA release that connected dots i had never even thought about. apparently during the height of the cold war, the CIA took a 57 page geology paper written by a researcher named chan thomas and locked the whole thing in a vault for nearly fifty years
the paper wasn't about soviet missiles or spying at all. thomas had mapped out evidence that human history isn't a straight line, and that the earth goes through violent surface resets on a regular clock where the magnetic field weakens and ocean basins flood across the continents.if you look at derinkuyu in that context, those giant stone doors locking from the inside suddenly make way more sense. whoever carved 18 levels into the bedrock wasn't hiding from local tribes, they were sealing themselves underground to wait out what was happening on the surface
what really messed with my head though is the second half of the article, where the writer breaks down the specific signs showing why the people at the top think the next cycle has already started, and how our whole modern system is basically set up to keep the public distracted while they prepare for it behind closed doors