Your Real Life Dream Dungeon Derinkuyu

Derinkuyu has been making the rounds again on social media
Many use germ of story with AI
Many use an image of castle greyhawk dungeons & dragons map

No its not a comet or meteor shelter - this isn't really a thing

Most of what is currently visible is Christian era

There are remains of previous Neolithic, Hittite, Syrian, and Romans but most of what we see there now is definitely Christian era and who was there before is more speculative and based on much less evidence. Includes Byzantine churches. Im looking into claims it had 20 000 people inside and how this was determined but hopefully robots and drones solve this stuff. I recommend Dr David Miano's videos on it and history on Youtube.

So I thought I'd share some stuff. I studied archaeology and the Internet and AI in recent years have become harder to find history and archaeology in mainstream news that is not kinda dumb. Faux scholars get more money and attention than real experts do sadly in the current era. So many of these faux BS factories are automated and just repeat stuff from others but they are still raking in the cash. 

Archaeology is a good source of inspiration but most of what adventure fiction shows us is colonialist grave robbing and plundering treasure which isn't really what archaeologists do now and more people working with Indigenous people than shooting them for gold. I'm struggling a bit to enjoy UFOs and ancient aliens and hollow earth as harmless fun anymore. I'd like to develop a formula to play pulp and sweat mag action without the more awful content. Atlantis for example is in so many films and comics but its history was used to invade people and justify bad stuff and it's only getting more popular. I am not saying don't have fun with some of these pulp fan ropes but maybe be aware there are increasingly bad actors delighting in the bad side of genre fiction's past and maybe steer away from it. Of course, killing slavers, nazis, masked racists, and rich villains is always fine. More and more people are willing to believe Castle Greyhawk is a dungeon in Turkey. 

At least in a fantasy world, we can have supernatural evil to blame or falling stars or giants.

I find the room shapes and wall thickness and depths in these diagrams interesting. 

If you can download this do so: 
Jerusalem Journal of Archeology Vol 3
It has maps and details on 28 of these "cities"

There are pdf with dozens of Egyptian tombs that are handy