Forgotten Richly Decorated Rock-Cut Cave Churches Of Goreme And Cappadocia
AncientPages.com | December 27, 2018
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Goreme (Göreme), located among the “fairy chimney†rock formations, is a town in Cappadocia, a historical region of Turkey. It is in the Nevsehir Province, Central Anatolia famous for its labyrinth of tunnels, largest and most complex underground city in the world.
After a volcanic eruption about 2000 years ago, lava formed soft rocks in Goreme and Cappadocia Region, in Turkey.
The softer rock was eroded away by wind and water, leaving the hard cap rock on top of pillars, forming the present-day fairy chimneys.
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