Voids in the earth's crust are found all over the world, and an underground civilization can really exist, given the fairly comfortable living conditions underground. Mention of underground civilization in myths different nations and on different continents occurs quite often. And the latest scientific discoveries are confirming the possibility of life underground. The mysterious underground world exists not only in legends. In recent decades, the number of visitors to the caves has increased markedly. Deeper and deeper, adventurers and miners make their way 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 below us there is a whole network of tunnels stretching for thousands of kilometers and enveloping the entire Earth in a network. Polish researcher Jan Paenk claims that a whole network of tunnels has been laid underground that lead to any country. These tunnels were created using 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 pierced, but as if burned out in underground rocks, and their walls are a frozen melt of rocks - 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 are rushing along these underground communications from one end of the world to the other. (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, USA, New Zealand. In addition, in many parts of the world, vertical, absolutely straight (like an arrow) wells with the same melted walls have been found. These wells have different depths from tens to several hundred meters. Mexico. Mitla. Mayan underground structures
These structures have high quality finishes and looks more like a bunker. The researchers also noticed that some of the details suggest that the Indians did not build, but only restored one of these structures from the blocks lying in the vicinity. There are especially many stories about the mysterious South American tunnels. Along the rugged roads that stretch across South America from Ecuador to Chile, archaeologists now and then excavate the highest level the civilization of those who built them. 
In 1991, a group of Peruvian cavers discovered a system of underground caves in the area of the Rio Sinjou River, in which traces of human activity were present. So, one of them was equipped with a stone slab rotating on balls. This mechanism for blocking the entrance could only be created by enlightened people. A tunnel of many kilometers stretched behind the door. And although several expeditions that have visited there have not yet managed to find out where it leads, there is hope that this riddle will be solved ... The famous English traveler and scientist Percy Fossett, who visited South America many times, mentioned in his books about extended caves located near the Popocatepetl and Inlacuatl volcanoes and in the area of Mount Shasta. Some researchers have been able to see fragments of this underground empire. Meanwhile, the most authoritative archaeologists of Peru today do not in the least doubt the existence of an underground empire: it has not yet been explored, it, in their understanding, extends under the seas and continents. And above the entrances to this grandiose underground in various parts of the planet, there are ancient buildings: for example, in Peru it is the city of Cuzco ... Of course, not all scientists share the opinion of Peruvian specialists. And yet, many facts speak in favor of the underworld, indirectly proving its existence. Dungeons of Cusco Is connected with gold and ancient legend, which tells about the secret entrance to the vast labyrinth of underground galleries under the collapsed building of the Cathedral of Santo Domingo. As evidenced by the Spanish magazine "Mas alia", specializing in the description of all kinds of historical mysteries, this legend, in particular, tells that there are gigantic tunnels in length, crossing the vast mountainous territory of Peru and reaching Brazil and Ecuador. In the language of the Quechua Indians, they are called "Chinkana", which literally means "labyrinth". 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-scale art items. 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 Cuzco (the only museum in the world dedicated to this noble metal is still operating here). But it also ruined him. The Spanish conquistadors, who conquered the city, plundered the Temple of the Sun, and all its wealth, including the golden statues in the garden, were loaded onto ships and sent to Spain. At the same time, rumors spread about the existence of underground halls and galleries, where the Incas allegedly hid some of the ritual gold items. There are snapshots of fragments of global dungeons in North America. Cape Perpetua. The gate to the dungeon. The world's longest Flint Mammoth Cave, 500 km of underground tunnels. Numerous speleological expeditions have established that the Mammoth Cave is connected to a number of nearby small caves. And the 1972 expedition discovered that there is a passage from Mammoth Cave to the Flint Ridge cave system. The author of the book about Shambhala, Andrew Thomas, based on a thorough analysis of the stories of American cavers, claims that there are direct underground passages in the mountains of California that lead to the state of New Mexico. Lost worlds of Africa There are many kilometers of tunnels under the Sahara Desert: from Sebha in Libya to the Ghat oasis near the Algerian border. These tunnels are a huge underground water supply system. Scientists estimate that the total length of the tunnels is approximately 1,600 km. These tunnels were carved into the rock more than five thousand years ago, which roughly coincides with the date of the emergence of the united state of Egypt. Underground tunnels of the island of Malta
Many experts claim that the Maltese Hypogeum was built as a temple, a huge underground temple of death and birth with an intricate system of levels, passages, halls and traps. In addition, skeletons of 30 thousand people of the late Neolithic era and various artifacts were discovered in the Hypogeum. Now historians insist on recognizing it as the eighth wonder of the world - after all, judging by this mysterious room, a developed civilization existed in Malta long before Stonehenge and the era of the Egyptian pyramids. Many underground passages and tunnels, including prehistoric catacombs, were later included by the knight builders in the fortification system. As for the network of catacombs near Malta, some ancient sources indicate that it branched out not only under the surface of the island: the passages went inland and to the sides, continued under the sea and, according to rumors, stretched all the way to Italy. At least in antiquity, in ancient times, many sources indicated this. About existence in Of Russia systems of global tunnels were written in his book "The Legend of the LSP" by a speleologist - a researcher who studies artificial structures - Pavel Miroshnichenko. Drawn by him on the map the former USSR the lines of global tunnels went from the Crimea through the Caucasus to the well-known Medveditskaya ridge. In each of these places, groups of ufologists, speleologists, researchers of the unknown discovered fragments of tunnels or mysterious bottomless wells. Since 1997, the Cosmopoisk expedition has carefully studied the notorious Medveditskaya ridge in the Volga region. 
The researchers discovered and mapped an extensive network of tunnels stretching for tens of kilometers. The tunnels have a circular cross-section, sometimes oval, with a diameter of 7 to 20 m, maintaining a constant width and direction along the entire length. The tunnels are located at a depth of 6 to 30 meters from the surface of the earth. As you approach the hill on the Medveditskaya ridge, the diameter of the tunnels increases from 20 to 35 meters, and then up to 80 m, and already at the very hill the diameter of the cavities reaches 120 m, turning into a huge hall under the mountain. Three seven-meter tunnels go from here at different angles. It seems that the Medveditskaya ridge is a junction, an intersection where tunnels from different regions converge. Researchers suggest that from here you can get not only to the Caucasus and Crimea, but also to the northern regions of Russia, to New earth and further to the North American continent. Under the Black Sea town of Gelendzhik, a bottomless mine with a diameter of about one and a half meters with strikingly smooth edges was discovered. Experts unanimously say: it was created using technology unknown to people and has existed for more than one hundred years. The undergrounds of the Urals keep many secrets. The first dungeons on the territory of Kievan Rus appeared before the X century, but all this was amateurishness in comparison with the caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. According to the official version, many kilometers of underground passages, cells, tombs and churches were created as an underground monastery. 
Despite the fact that the caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Holy Dormition Lavra have been studied, they keep many secrets. Some corridors have not been used for a very long time due to landslides. This is especially true of the Dalnye Caves, all the exits of which towards the Dnieper have long been abandoned, and in the 1930s they were bricked up and tightly cemented ... in Ukraine, in the Ternopil region is the world's second longest cave "Optimistic", not so long ago discovered by speleologists. To date, more than 200 kilometers of its passages have been opened. And it is believed that this is not the limit, and perhaps it is connected with other caves, forming a single network. In the study stage are now and Gobi caves... Due to their inaccessibility - and the caves are located on the so-called "forbidden territory" associated with Shambhala, the habitat of the highest initiates - the Gobi dungeons have practically not been explored. But this is all just a cursory surface overview. There is no way just to even list all the mysterious dungeons and tunnels scattered around the world, and, most likely, connected together. The same goes for all the many catacombs, which are not just quarries. Their origin goes back millennia. The catacombs are also not fully explored and may also be part of a single underground network of tunnels. Legends of the inhabitants of the dungeon It is difficult to find a people who did not have legends about creatures living in the darkness of the dungeons. They were much older than the human race and originated from representatives of other civilizations that disappeared from the surface of the earth. They possessed secret knowledge and crafts. In relation to humans, the inhabitants of the dungeons, as a rule, were hostile. Therefore, it can be assumed that fairy tales describe a really existing, and maybe even today existing, underground world. 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 ground. Through them, the "initiate" can travel to the center of the planet and meet with representatives of ancient civilization. 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 - Agarta, based on the principles of the Golden Age - has existed for at least 60 thousand years. People there know no evil and do not commit crimes. Science has reached an unprecedented flowering there, therefore the underground people, who have reached incredible heights of knowledge, do not know diseases and are not afraid of any cataclysms. The King of the World wisely rules not only millions of his own underground subjects, but also secretly the entire population of the surface of the Earth. He knows all the hidden springs of the universe, he comprehends the soul of every human being and reads the great book of destinies. The kingdom of Agartha stretches underground all over the planet. There is also an opinion that the peoples of Agartha were forced to go underground after a universal cataclysm (flood) and submersion under the water of land - the ancient continents that existed on the site of the present oceans. In the underground workshops, tireless work is in full swing. Any metals are melted there and products from them are forged. In unknown chariots or other perfect devices are carried underground inhabitants through tunnels deep underground. The level of technical development of underground inhabitants exceeds the wildest imagination. 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. It is inhabited by people-snakes, who keep countless treasures in their caves. Cold-blooded like snakes, these creatures are incapable of experiencing human feelings. They cannot keep warm themselves and steal warmth, bodily and spiritual, from other living beings. The Hindus have legends about the Nagas - snake-like creatures living on land, in water or underground. In South America, there are amazing caves connected by endless intricate passages - the so-called chinkanas. The legends of the Indians say that people-snakes 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 the Chinkanas. Some tried to penetrate into the dark depths out of curiosity, others - because of the thirst for profit: according to legend, the treasures of the Incas are hidden in the Chinkanas. Only a few managed to get out of the creepy caves. But even these "lucky ones" were permanently damaged in their minds. From the incoherent stories of the survivors, it can be understood that they met in the depths of the earth with strange creatures. These inhabitants of the underworld were both human and serpentine at the same time. A sub-latitudinal tunnel stretching from Crimea to the east in the Ural Mountains intersects with another one stretching from north to east. It is along this tunnel that you can hear stories about “divyah people” who came out to the local residents at the beginning of the last century. "Divya people", - is told in the epics widespread in the Urals, - they live in the Ural mountains, they have access to the world through caves. Their culture is the greatest. "Divya people" are small in stature, very beautiful and with a pleasant voice, but only a select few can hear them ... Among a number of researchers of the underworld there is a strong opinion that entrances to underground cities of humanoid inhabitants exist in the Pamirs and even at the poles of the Arctic and Antarctica. Life underground According to geologists, there is more water underground than in the entire World Ocean, and not all of it is in a bound state, i.e. only part of the water is included in the composition of minerals and rocks. By now, underground seas, lakes and rivers have been discovered. 
It has been suggested that the waters of the World Ocean are associated with the underground water system, and, accordingly, there is not only the cycle and exchange of water between them, but also the exchange of biological species. Unfortunately, this area remains completely unexplored to date. 
To believe or not to believe? To believe or not to believe all these stories? Any sane person will answer: "Don't believe!" But not everything is so simple. Let's try to reason 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? Going unnoticed? Is this possible? Does such "living" contradict common sense? In principle, a person can exist underground, and it would be pretty good - there would be money, Suffice it to recall the bunker house, which is now being built by Tom Cruise: the megastar plans to hide in his underground home from aliens, who, in his opinion, will soon attack our The earth. 
In less "exposed", but no less solid bunker cities, the "chosen ones" are preparing to wait out the nuclear winter and the post-radiation period in the event of an atomic war - and this is a period during which more than one generation will get on their feet! 
Moreover, in China and Spain today many thousands of people do not live in houses, but in comfortable caves with all conveniences. True, these cave dwellers continue to actively contact the outside world and take part in terrestrial life. 
But, perhaps, the most striking example of the adaptability of a huge number of people (and what is there - an entire civilization!) To the "lower" world is the underground city of Derinkuyu. Derinkuyu I have already made a post about the ancient underground city of Derinkuyu, which is located in the picturesque Turkish countryside of Cappadocia. http: //www.site/blogs/vokrug_sveta/55502_podzemnyj_gorod_derinkuyu Of course I don’t want to repeat myself, but I can’t forget about him here either. 
Derinkuyu, which means "deep wells", got its name from the small Turkish town currently located above it. For a long time, no one thought about the purpose of these most strange wells, until in 1963 one of the local residents, who discovered a strange crack in his basement, from which fresh air was drawn, showed healthy curiosity. As a result, a multi-tiered underground city was found, numerous rooms and galleries of which, connected to each other by passages, tens of kilometers long, were carved into the rocks ... Already during the excavation of the upper tiers of Derinkuyu, it became clear: this is a discovery of the century. In the underground city, scientists discovered objects of material culture of the Hittites, a great Indo-European people who competed with the Egyptians for domination in Western Asia. Hittite kingdom, founded in the 18th century BC e., in the XII century BC. NS. sunk into obscurity. Therefore, the discovery of an entire Hittite city became a real sensation. In addition, it turned out that the gigantic underground city is only part of the colossal labyrinth under the Anatolian plateau. Scientists have come to the conclusion that underground construction was 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 is striking even 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, which supplied the city with fresh air, continues to operate without fail to this day! Derinkuyu is not the only underground city found in Turkey. In 300 kilometers southeast of Ankara, Turkish archaeologists unearthed another, the creation of which dates back to the 7th century BC. NS. Now it is called by the name of the nearby village - Kaymakli. On its seven floors, going into the depths of the earth, there are two-room "apartments" with compartments for food and food storage. The baths - smooth indentations in the stone - were designed to be filled with water from underground springs. And at any time of the year, thanks to a precisely calculated system of ventilation shafts, a constant temperature of +27 C was maintained in the premises.
Bunkers, dungeons, hiding places ... Deep underground fortresses and vast cave cities. Flickering lights in modern mall and gray walls of prehistoric pyramid corridors. Salvation from nuclear war or death from the curse of the pharaohs. Heaps of bones in the catacombs and crowds of people in the subway. Bright light and stormy work in a secret laboratory or darkness and silence in ancient cave temples. The cries of heretics in the dungeons of the Inquisition and bloody showdowns of youth gangs in the basements. Such is the world of dungeons - man-made and full of secrets.
And although dungeons are the creations of human hands, they are often more dangerous than natural caves. Here pipes with boiling water burst, booby-trapped mines explode or floors fall through and thorns pop up in secret passages. Maniacs routinely butcher victims in dark corners, and adherents of secret sects eliminate bystanders. Technical power does not guarantee complete protection from natural forces: in the underground, the collapse of the vault, flooding can occur groundwater or the burst of poisonous gas from the bowels of the planet. But there are much more mysteries in the dungeons of ancient civilizations than in ordinary natural caves.
Communal horrors
Under any modern city a whole underground world is hidden - a network of tunnels with life support systems. Additionally, under each house there is a basement - concrete catacombs. Rusty pipes and wheel valves, dusty light bulbs and wires. Despite the outward banality, a walk through man-made dungeons is unsafe. When the funds for repairs ran out, many of the dungeons came to an abandoned state, and the communications in them were worn out. Now old pipes can burst at any second, having poured boiling water from hot water supply over a person or overheated steam from a heating plant. Power wires with crumbled insulation from time to time spark and threaten with an electric shock. A burst of sewer pipes fills the catacombs with a thick brown liquid. Leakage from gas pipes is invisible, but the slightest spark is enough to explode.
Many dungeons were built with savings in mind, not maintenance. Therefore, in many catacombs you have to squeeze sideways in narrow corridors or dive under a concrete lintel in doorways. Most of the aisles are clogged with pipes and wires, which leave very little headroom. City undergrounds are stuffy, filthy and often smelly. The water in the pipes is noisy, constantly reminding about the danger of breakthrough and flooding.
Abandoned city basements are often favored by criminals, so there is a chance to make a horror movie starring yourself. Basements are also becoming a home for homeless people. The smell of rotten food from garbage cans and laundry that has not been washed for a long time complements the picture of a thick layer of dirt, cobwebs and dust. But flies, rats, cockroaches, spiders and other living creatures such as wood lice and caterpillars (not to mention any infectious bacteria) live and breed comfortably in city undergrounds. These are the urban dungeons - the outcasts of urbanization and at the same time an irreplaceable part of modern megacities.
Mines
Man's greed is boundless: in pursuit of minerals, he dug up the bowels of the planet far and wide. Gold mines of South Africa go deepest underground - up to 5 kilometers at the Tau-Ton mine. At such a depth, the temperature in the mines reaches 60-80 ºC, ventilation works poorly, and the air humidity reaches 97-98%. A real hell in which blacks mine gold for white masters.
Work in coal mines is no better. When crushing and extracting coal, miners constantly breathe in coal dust, which over decades leads to lung silicosis with bloody cough. In coal mines, methane constantly accumulates, at the slightest spark causing underground explosions and fires with massive roof collapses. The biggest disaster of this kind in the world was the methane explosion at the Raspadskaya mine in 2010, when all mine workings with a total length of 300 kilometers were destroyed and 91 miners died.
In general, coal mines love to burn and sometimes burn for a very long time and strongly: in 2004, China finally extinguished a 130-year-old fire at the Liuhuanggou coal field, in which 1.8 million tons of coal were burned per year, 100 thousand tons of harmful gases were released into the atmosphere and deposited on the ground 40 tons of ash. In addition to coal dust, poisonous gases from the bowels of the Earth are concentrated in the stuffy, stale air of mines, which are also not useful for health. Those who like to wander through abandoned mines should remember that the wooden roof and supports decay and collapse over time, so the walls and ceiling of the mine can collapse at the most inopportune moment.
Sometimes abandoned mines take on a second, even more glorious life. There is a network of catacombs under many major cities - the result of chaotic, haphazard, but large-scale limestone mining. The most extensive catacombs with a total length of 1.5-2 thousand kilometers are located near Odessa, although the Parisian catacombs are more popular. The reason for this was a combination of several factors: the aura of a giant cemetery with the bones and skulls of millions of people, a vast and intricate labyrinth of passages with the possibility of getting lost and heavy stone walls evoking the atmosphere of medieval castles. Of the many films about the Parisian catacombs, it is worth noting "Catacombs" and. In the first film, the idea of wandering in an underground labyrinth with maniacs is presented in an original and non-standard way, in the second - the idea of ancient powerful artifacts of secret sects with a deep philosophical meaning.
Cave cities, bunkers and underground inhabitants
Until a person learned to build multi-storey buildings, he actively used natural mountains for housing, cutting down corridors, rooms and stairs inside them. There are entire underground cities all over the world, from the USA to Vietnam.
But the most life-threatening dungeons were built in China. If in other countries such cities were hewn, for example, in granite or limestone, then in China - in loess rocks. This is, in fact, compressed sand, characterized by increased fragility and enhanced water absorption. The slightest tremor causes a massive collapse of the loess massifs, which bury people under them. Why is there an earthquake! When water gets in, the loess shrinks, becomes heavy and crumbles. Therefore, even ordinary rain is fraught with the appearance of sinkholes and craters for loess dungeons. When dry, loess dwellings emit a lot of dust at the slightest movement, which is very harmful to health. Cave cities were used only as a place to sleep, prepare food, and sometimes as a temporary refuge.
The next level of underground life is completely isolated bunkers. In this case, the surface of the Earth is unsuitable for life and people sit in bomb shelters without getting out. The main disadvantage and vulnerability of bunkers is the limited food supply. In the movie "Air", people sleep in suspended animation, waiting for the Earth's surface to clear. Only two technicians wake up once a year for one hour for routine repairs and inspections. But the capsule of one of the technicians suddenly breaks and now someone has to die - the air in the sealed bunker is only for one hour. The re-purified air into the bunker will be launched by automatic equipment exactly one year later.
People who live permanently underground are very popular in the arts, but they are not credible from the point of view of science. Without sunlight and photosynthesis, the existence of the biosphere we are accustomed to is impossible. Underground there is life on chemosynthesis, but its productivity is too low even for individuals - not to mention entire underground cities. Even turning people into dwarfs does not help "pull the owl on the globe" - except perhaps to reduce people to the size of underground crayfish. Without photosynthetic plants, it is not clear where the air comes from for the inhabitants of underground cities. You can, of course, prescribe powerful ventilation from the surface, but this is already cheating and in general - what is the point for people to sit underground with a surface favorable for life?
With the metallurgy of any gnomes, there are even more misunderstandings - where does the smoke from the forge go? If Moria of the dwarves has only a few carefully disguised exits, then the smoke from the metallurgy should fill and stagnate in underground rooms. In the novel Metro 2033, people in the Moscow subway feed on mushroom plantations. Muscovites can estimate the size of the metro, where, in addition to plantations, 50 thousand people will permanently live. In the movie "City of Amber: Escape" it is not explained at all where the residents of the city get their food.
Eight residents of a multi-storey building, during a nuclear bombardment, burst into the personal bunker of a firefighter who did not have time to slam the door. When hunger approaches, the situation escalates. The owner of the bunker is severely beaten, tied up and deprived of rations for hiding a room with an additional supply of food. Time passes, the reserves decrease even more, and then the most decisive seize power. The dictatorship is replacing the communist democracy “everyone eats equally”. Now all food is controlled by a group of rulers, and the rest for the sake of "a piece of bread" are forced to humiliate themselves and serve the "masters". At the end of the film, there is a natural riot of "cattle", a bloody massacre and only one girl runs upstairs in a chemical protection suit - the lifeless surface contaminated with radiation turned out to be better than an underground nightmare.
Prisoners of dungeons can be attributed to involuntary underground inhabitants, because this is an indispensable attribute of knightly castles. For years, the prisoners do not know the sunlight and fresh air, they sit in stuffy, damp and cold stone bags deep underground, and only the ringing of rusty chains breaks the burial silence. The jailer may not come, then the prisoner is free to shout and knock on the thick stone walls as much as he wants - no one will hear him die of hunger and thirst. As prisons, dungeons have two advantages: difficulty in escaping and harsh containment conditions. Unlike land-based prisons, such dungeons are distant from the surface by tens of meters of land, or even rocks. Try to fight your way to freedom, having only a shard of a knife as a handy tool!
Even worse is underground dungeons being buried alive. In Buried Alive, Iraqi militants buried a captive American chauffeur in a coffin, leaving him only a flashlight and a mobile phone to call home about ransom. If the ransom is not paid, he will die of lack of air. But the American government does not want to follow the lead of the terrorists, and the management of the company is concerned only with the earliest possible dismissal of its employee in trouble in order to save money on insurance.
You can also recall the film "Kill Bill". True, here the ending turned out to be happy: the heroine, with the help of Chinese fist art, was able to break the wooden lid of the coffin and break through a layer of still loose earth to the surface. Salvation from the underworld in the literal sense of the word turned out to be a return from the other world.
Nuclear dungeons
Most of the dungeons were formed as a result of mechanical extraction of rock from the bowels of the Earth, but there are three very special types. To obtain combustible gas, shale or low-quality coal is sometimes deliberately set on fire. The result is underground cavities that are very reminiscent of pyrogenic caves (already in DARKER). In another method of mining, sulfur-containing rocks are injected hot water, and then pump out the solution with sulfur. The underground voids formed as a result of explosions, and among them - nuclear dungeons, stand apart.
The main disadvantage of nuclear tests is the strong radiation contamination of the surrounding area. Therefore, over time, under pressure from environmentalists, the countries of the world gradually switched to underground nuclear explosions, when radiation does not reach the surface. A nuclear bomb is placed in a deep adit and walled up from above. In an underground nuclear explosion, a spherical cavity of significant diameter is formed, the surface of which is covered with a crust of remelted radioactive substance, and the air inside is saturated with radiation. Nuclear cavities are the most dangerous types of dungeons for health and, of course, are never visited by people.
Dungeons-caves
It happens that when digging underground, a person goes into natural caves (for example, the Odessa catacombs have exits to very ancient and deep natural caves). People often use existing natural voids, expanding and rebuilding them to suit their needs: for example, deposits of polymetallic ores were discovered and developed right inside the Chagyr cave in Altai, adding mine workings to the natural voids. The theme of convicts in the mine caves is interestingly revealed in the fantastic horror film "Chthon". Abandoned dungeons are often exposed to natural forces and become indistinguishable from real caves.
Of these mixed types of caves, the most interesting are found on the coast of the Aegean Sea. Waves of seas, lakes and rivers attack coastal cliffs every day, especially quickly destroying soft rocks such as limestone. Over time, under the impact of the waves, grottoes appear - hemispherical depressions in the coastal cliffs. Gradually, these grottoes deepen, collapse, and in their place coastal caves are formed - long tunnels extending deep into the rocks, partially filled with water. Sometimes the vaults of sea caves collapse, revealing small lakes connected to the sea by an underground passage.
At the dawn of ancient Greek history, such sea grottoes were chosen by local pirates. They served them as a secret refuge from patrol ships, which were usually larger and heavier than pirate boats and could not thoroughly explore the winding shallow coast. However, the path to the sea grottoes was dangerous even without government patrols.
The combination of strong currents with many shoals, rocks, reefs and stones led to the formation of a seething mess of waves, shafts, whirlpools and breakers. Before the invention of engines and iron ships, strong currents could smash wooden sail-and-oars on rocks and reefs, and drag the crew down to the bottom. To transport prey or make an emergency escape from the sea grottoes, pirates dug underground passages to the surface or, in the event of a collapse of the vault, hewed out steps in the limestone rock. The floor of the coastal caves was covered with a layer of water, and some were even half or completely flooded. Therefore, stone berths for ships and even sometimes temporary warehouses for mining were built in the grottoes themselves - a kind of prototype of the later secret underground berths for strategic submarines of the United States and the USSR.
However, sea grottoes are not safe. Walls washed away by water can suddenly collapse. The collapse of sea caves, in addition to the death of people inside, is fraught with sudden failures on the surface. The noise and seething of waves echoingly fills the enclosed space. At high tides, the entrances to some caves are below the water level and become temporarily inaccessible. In storms, some of the coastal caves are overwhelmed and filled with beating waves.
Like the secret hideouts of pirates, sea caves were sometimes used to store treasures (at least according to the legends). In the 1930s, excavations of a coastal cave found the remains of two treasure hunters who entered the coastal cave of Lundy Island on the northwest coast of England in search of the treasure of William de Morisco, which Lundy owned in the 13th century and from there pirated in British waters. However, instead of fabulous riches, the treasure hunters found their own death: a sudden landslide blocked the exit from the cave, and with the tide the water filled the cave and people drowned.
Aeolian caves served as a source of inspiration, and sometimes the beginning of desert cities. This is the complete opposite of sea caves. Sand instead of water, wind whistling instead of lapping waves, dry desert instead of coastal moisture.
The aeolian caves were created by the work of the wind. In arid regions, the wind picks up and carries with it huge amounts of sand. At high speed, the grains of sand hit the rocks like a shot, forming over time hemispherical grooves - aeolian grottoes. The sandy wind begins to concentrate in the grottoes and gradually deepens them into the aeolian caves - dead-end tunnels deep into the mountain. Sometimes aeolian caves pierce the mountains through and through, forming aeolian arches. However, they are also short-lived - the upper part of the arches often collapses, dividing the once single rock or mountain into two parts. So, in addition to the sand shot, there is always the danger of the eolian cave collapsing.
With a short length of up to 6-7 meters, aeolian caves have wide and high entrances through which the wind can freely penetrate. During the day, aeolian caves provide a good shelter from the sun's rays, but in a dust storm they turn into a death trap. A concentrated stream of sand-saturated wind flows inside through the entrance. Grains of sand at high speed can stain your face with blood or damage your eyes. Despite the danger, in some aeolian caves, traces of human displacements and expansions were found - probably used for sleeping or storing valuables.
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Caves and dungeons have always been a part of human life. We had a thousand reasons to dig them up. We excavate to find cultural treasures, we dig mines for archaeological discoveries. We use underground caves for entertainment and shelters from natural and man-made disasters. We connect continents with tunnels, smugglers use them for their dark deeds.
Today we will visit various interesting underground worlds.
1. Near the town of Ingleton in England, at a depth of 100 meters is the most big cave in Britain called Gaping Gill. It is comparable in size to the York Minster in the English city of York, which disputes the title of the largest medieval temple in northern Europe to the Cologne Cathedral. (Photo by Oli Scarff):
2. In Frankfurt, which stands on the River Main, is the construction of an underground tunnel under the river. This is how the drilling rig is being lowered down. (Photo by Boris Roessler):
3. How about an underground pool bar at the Desert Cave Hotel in Australia? (Photo by Mark Kolbe):
4. Fontanelle Cemetery - an ossuary, set in natural caves at the foot of the Materdey hill, near Naples. Fontanelle Cemetery is an ossuary set in natural caves at the foot of the Materdey Hill, near Naples. (Photo by Cesare Abbate):
5. Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, 4.55 km long, dug in 1822-1826. from the Seine, the canal runs along the border of the 4th and 12th arrondissements, first as the Arsenalsky reservoir, whose port can accommodate up to 180 ships, then goes underground in front of Place de la Bastille, reaching the surface near Place de la Republique , after Stalingrad 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 huddled in cracks in trees, rocks or in crevices in buildings. Hollows in trees, caves, grottoes and various artificial structures, both aboveground and underground, can serve as shelters. (Photo by Radek Mica):
7. Underground swimming pool. The To Sua Ocean Trench can be found in the village of Lotofaga on the southern coast of Upolu Island in Samoa. You will have to descend to the natural pool to a depth of 30 meters from the surface of the earth. (Photo by Mark Kolbe):
8. Parastas Cave (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. There is a network of ancient tunnels under the city. (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 but look into the St. Petersburg metro. (Photo by Cara Anna):
12. The first underground park in New York. City dwellers can take refuge from the chaos of the city just under the streets of the Lower East Side. This area will be able to park with special mirrors that capture the sunlight on the roof. It is then channeled through a system of mirror pipes and distributed through a network of special solar canopy panels. (Photo by Mary Altaffer):
13. The underground enterprises of the Third Reich were a measure to help protect the most important enterprises for waging war from destruction during massive Allied bombing raids. This one is near Walbrzych, in southwestern Poland. (Photo by Kacper Pempel | Reuters):
14. A 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 subway station in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha | Reuters):
16. Lots of salt. Salt mine in Philippsthal (Werra), Germany. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes):
17. Hid from the war. Family underground shelter in Aleppo suburb. (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).
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. The 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.
Representatives of these civilizations, for some reason, did not come into contact with people, but nevertheless they made themselves felt, and terrestrial humanity has long had stories and legends about mysterious and strange people who sometimes come out of the 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 carried out by NASA specialists together with French scientists have discovered underground cities, as well as an underground branched network of tunnels and galleries, stretching for tens and even thousands of kilometers in 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 underground cities and structures erected in an unknown way right in the underground rocks.
Polish researcher Jan Paenk claims that a whole network of tunnels has been laid underground that lead to any country. These tunnels were created using 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 pierced, but as if burned out in underground rocks, and their walls are a frozen melt of rocks - 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 are rushing along these underground communications from one end of the world to the other. (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, USA, New Zealand. In addition, in many parts of the world, vertical, absolutely straight (like an arrow) wells with the same melted walls have been found. 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 the unknown underground people in 1946. This happened after the writer, journalist and scientist Richard Shaver told the readers of the American paranormal magazine "Amazing Stories" about his contact with extraterrestrials 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.
It would be possible to write off this "contact" on the freewheeling imagination of the writer, 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 the 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 of the most advanced minds of Nazi Germany headed by Professor Heinz Fischer set out to search for an entrance to an underground civilization, supposedly located on the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea. Hitler was convinced that at least some areas of the earth consisted of voids, inside which one could live and which had long been home to the overdeveloped peoples of antiquity. German scientists, in turn, hoped that if they were able to place modern radar devices at the desired geographical point under the earth's surface, 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 creatures that inhabited the world millions of years ago. Infinitely wise, scientifically advanced and culturally developed, these creatures, driven underground by terrible catastrophes, created their own civilization there, which gives them everything they need. They don't want to have anything to do with people who are considered low, dirty and wild. But sometimes they steal human children in order to then raise them as their own. Ancient creatures are outwardly similar to ordinary people and live a very long time, but they appeared on our planet millions of years earlier than us.
In 1977, several American magazines published photographs obtained from the ECCA-7 satellite, 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 other global cataclysm that changed the planet's climate, what would the civilization do then, most likely would try to survive, and if the planet's surface is not suitable for life and a flight to another planet is not the level of technology allows, 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 simply could not, constant stay in conditions of a different climate and different gravity (underground gravitational pressure is significantly different from usual), in addition, it should be noted that there is no sunlight underground, technological lighting does not contain the full spectrum, and a long stay under technical lighting can also cause "weaning" from sunlight.
Considering that all this has been for millennia, it can be assumed that the underground civilization could have evolved greatly, perhaps even that a rejection of some aspects of the climate has developed, for example, 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, adaptation of food, since organizing "Vigitarian" food in the underworld is not very simple, and rather depends on the level of civilization, it is more possible that civilization switched to only animal food. Some of the above parameters, undoubtedly, should have influenced the culture and mentality of civilization, maybe some monsters are just inhabitants of the underworld?
The mysterious underground world exists not only in legends. In recent decades, the number of visitors to the caves has increased markedly. Deeper and deeper, adventurers and miners make their way 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 in a network, and huge, sometimes even inhabited 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 people-snakes 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 the Chinkanas. Some tried to penetrate into the dark depths out of curiosity, others - because of the thirst for profit: according to legend, the treasures of the Incas are hidden in the Chinkanas. Only a few managed to get out of the creepy caves. But even these "lucky ones" were permanently damaged in their minds. From the incoherent stories of the survivors, it can be understood that they met in the depths of the earth with strange creatures. These inhabitants of the underworld were both human and serpentine at the same time.
There are snapshots of fragments of global dungeons in North America. The author of the book about Shambhala, Andrew Thomas, based on a thorough analysis of the stories of American cavers, claims that there are direct underground passages in the mountains of California that lead to the state of New Mexico.
Once the American military also had to start exploring the mysterious thousand-kilometer tunnels. An underground nuclear explosion was carried out at a test site in the state of Nevada. Exactly two hours later, at a military base in Canada, 2,000 kilometers away from the explosion site, a radiation level 20 times higher than the norm was recorded. Geologists' research has shown that there is an underground cavity next to the Canadian base that connects to a huge cave system that runs through 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 ground. 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. It is inhabited by the Nanas - people-snakes who keep countless treasures in their caves. Cold-blooded like snakes, these creatures are incapable of experiencing human feelings. They cannot keep warm themselves and steal warmth, bodily and spiritual, from other living beings.
Pavel Miroshnichenko, a spelestologist and researcher who studies artificial structures, wrote about the existence of a system of global tunnels in Russia in his book "The Legend of the LSP". The lines of global tunnels drawn by him 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, researchers of the unknown discovered fragments of tunnels or mysterious bottomless wells.
For many years the Medveditskaya ridge has been studied by expeditions organized by the Cosmopoisk association. 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 the dungeons. Unfortunately, after the Second World War, the mouths of the tunnels were blown up.
A sub-latitudinal tunnel stretching from Crimea to the east in the Ural Mountains intersects with another one stretching from north to east. It is along this tunnel that you can hear stories about “divyah people” who came out to the local residents at the beginning of the last century. "Divya people", - is told in the epics widespread in the Urals, - they live in the Ural mountains, they have access to the world through caves. Their culture is the greatest. "Divya people" are short, very beautiful and with a pleasant voice, but only a select few can hear them ... An old man from "divya people" comes to the square and predicts what will happen. An unworthy person neither hears nor sees anything, and the peasants in those places know everything that the Bolsheviks hide. "
Legends of our days.
Meanwhile, the most authoritative archaeologists of Peru today do not in the least doubt the existence of an underground empire: it has not yet been explored, it, in their understanding, extends under the seas and continents. And above the entrances to this grandiose underground in various parts of the planet, there are ancient buildings: for example, in Peru it is the city of Cuzco ... Of course, not all scientists share the opinion of Peruvian specialists. And yet, many facts speak in favor of the underworld, indirectly proving its existence. The 1970s turned out to be 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 the working equipment increased, and therefore the workers were frightened and ran away. Returning after a while, they found neither the entrance to the well, nor the stairs.
USA. Anthropologist James McKenna and his colleagues surveyed a cave in Idaho that is notorious for the indigenous population. Locals believed that there is an entrance to the underworld. Scientists, delving 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 town of Gelendzhik, a bottomless mine with a diameter of about one and a half meters with strikingly 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 about the underworld, one cannot discount the legends that have already appeared in our days. For example, modern Indians living in mountainous areas California, they say that very tall golden-haired people sometimes come from Mount Shasta: once they came down from heaven, but did not manage to adapt to life on the earth's surface. Now they live in a secret city that is inside extinct volcano... And you can get into it only through mountain caves. By the way, Andrew Thomas, the author of the book about Shambhala, completely 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.
Another underground people were "discovered" by cavers: they are sure that deep caves all over the world are inhabited by troglodytes. It is said that these cave dwellers sometimes appear in front of 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: "Don't believe!" But not everything is so simple. Let's try to reason 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? Going unnoticed? Is this possible? Does such "living" contradict common sense?
In principle, a person can exist underground, and it would be pretty good - there would be money, Suffice it to recall the bunker house, which is now being built by Tom Cruise: the megastar plans to hide in his underground home from aliens, who, in his opinion, will soon attack our The earth. In less "exposed", but no less solid bunker cities, the "chosen ones" are preparing to wait out the nuclear winter and the post-radiation period in the event of an atomic war - and this is a period during which more than one generation will get on their feet! Moreover, in China and Spain today many thousands of people do not live in houses, but in comfortable caves with all conveniences. True, these cave dwellers continue to actively contact the outside world and take part in terrestrial life. But the inhabitants scattered around the world cave monasteries- like the Greek Meteora - have always been almost completely cut off from the vain life. According to the degree of isolation, lasting centuries, their existence can be considered underground.
But, perhaps, the most striking example of the adaptability of a huge number of people (and what is there - an entire civilization!) To the "lower" world is the underground city of Derinkuyu.
Derinkuyu
Derinkuyu, which means "deep wells", got its name from the small Turkish town currently located above it. For a long time, no one thought about the purpose of these most strange wells, until in 1963 one of the local residents, who discovered a strange crack in his basement, from which fresh air was drawn, showed healthy curiosity. As a result, a multi-tiered underground city was found, numerous rooms and galleries of which, connected to each other by passages, tens of kilometers long, were carved into the rocks ...
Already during the excavation of the upper tiers of Derinkuyu, it became clear: this is 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 domination in Western Asia. Hittite kingdom, founded in the 18th century BC e., in the XII century BC. NS. sunk into obscurity. Therefore, the discovery of an entire Hittite city became a real sensation. In addition, it turned out that the gigantic underground city is only part of the colossal labyrinth under the Anatolian plateau. Scientists have come to the conclusion that underground construction was 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 is striking even 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, which supplied the city with fresh air, continues to operate without fail to this day!
In the presence of provisions in the underground city, up to two hundred thousand people could live at the same time indefinitely. The issue of restocking food stocks could be addressed in many ways, from domestic production to the use of "intermediary services". Apparently, there was no single scheme at all times.
But in the legends of different peoples, underground inhabitants get their food by exchange trade, secret fishing 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 production of food that became the reason that the terrestrial inhabitants had thoughts about the existence of "children of the dungeons" ...
The traces of the Hittites who lived underground can be traced back to the Middle Ages, and then are lost. The developed underground civilization managed to secretly exist for almost two millennia, and after its disappearance, it did not open up to the terrestrial 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 secretly 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 narratives seriously. But now our time has come, and some researchers began to write about the underground city of Agartu. The entrance to this secret dwelling under the ground is supposedly under the Lasha monastery in Tibet. The absolute majority of representatives of official science reacted to such statements with slight irony. But on the other hand, reports of mysterious entrances to the dungeons and bottomless mines may perhaps interest not only an inquisitive person, but also a serious scientist.
Among a number of researchers of the underworld, there is a strong opinion that 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 that, according to Indian eyewitnesses, several times we saw people who were not like the local people, emerging from the ground. According to the written testimony of many Indians, you can get to the underworld through various caves located near sacred volcanoes Popocatelloop and Inlacuatl. Here, according to the assurances of the same Indians, they sometimes met tall and fair-haired strangers coming out of the dungeon.
Even at one time, the famous English traveler and scientist Percy Fawcett, who visited South America six times, said that he had repeatedly heard from the Indians living in the 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 has probably existed for more than one hundred years and was created using a technology that is not known to modern mankind. The first attempt of scientists and cavers to thoroughly examine the phenomenon ended in tragedy. 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 deceased in the mine sank 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 out of the mine, but the rope at first taut like a string, and then suddenly loosened. The lower end was cut off like a knife. There were subsequent, however, short-term attempts to study this bottomless well by the method of lowering it into it. They gave practically nothing. Then a TV camera was lowered into the mine. The rope was gradually built up to 200 meters, and all this time the camera showed the bare walls. That's all that is known today about the Gelendzhik phenomenon.
Such bottomless wells are found on all continents of the planet.
The most authoritative archaeologists of Peru today do not in the least doubt the existence of a 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, they are convinced that one of these places is Cuzco in Peru.
In this regard, the most intriguing story is about the underground city of La Cecana in the Andes. More recently, in the University Library of the city of Cuzco, archeology found a report on the disaster that befell a group of researchers from France and the United States in 1952. In the vicinity of the named city, they found an entrance to the dungeon and began to prepare to descend 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 Lamontiere made it to the surface. He was emaciated, suffered from memory gaps, almost lost his human appearance, and besides, he soon showed clear signs of infection with the deadly bubonic plague. While in the hospital, the Frenchman was mostly delirious, but still sometimes talked about the bottomless abyss into which his companions fell. Nobody took his words seriously, and therefore no rescue expedition was carried out. Moreover, out of fear of a plague epidemic, which Philip Lamontiere 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 there was an ear of corn made of pure gold, which he lifted with him from the ground. Now this underground find is kept in the Museum of Archeology of Cuzco.
More recently, the most authoritative researcher of the Inca civilization, Dr. Raul Rios Centeno, tried to repeat the route of the tragically missing 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 studied entrances. However, having outwitted the guards, the archaeologists went into the dungeon through a room under the tomb of a dilapidated temple a few kilometers from Cusco. From here came a long, gradually tapering corridor, like part of a huge ventilation system. Some time later, the expedition was forced to stop, since 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 the participants into complete bewilderment. Where did this metal come from in the prehistoric labyrinth? They began to examine the walls. And it turned out that they have a skin of unknown origin and high density, which was not taken by any instrument. The tunnel continued to narrow steadily until its height reached 90 cm. People had to turn back. On way back the guide fled, fearing that he would eventually be severely punished for assisting scientists in their illegal actions. This was the end of the expedition. Dr. Centeno was not allowed to repeat further research even in the highest state authorities ...
Tibetan lamas say that the lord of the Underworld
is the great King of the World, as he is called in the East. And his kingdom -
Agartha, based on the principles of the Golden Age - there are at least 60
thousand years. People there know no evil and do not commit crimes. Unseen
science flourished there, therefore the underground people, who reached
incredible heights of knowledge, does not know disease and is not afraid of any
cataclysms. The King of the World wisely rules 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 destinies.
The kingdom of Agartha stretches underground all over the planet. And under the oceans too.
There is also an opinion that the peoples of Agartha were forced to switch to
underground residence after a universal cataclysm (flood) and immersion
under the water of the land - the ancient continents that existed in the place of the present
oceans. As the Himalayan lamas say, in the caves of Agartha 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
death underground, lives in the caves of America. Here they are -
the Ecuadorian dungeons of Erich von Denniken in the foothills of the South American
Andes. Recall that information gleaned from Chinese sources,
promulgated in 1922, that is, exactly half a century before the irrepressible
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. Any metals melt there
and products are forged from them. In unknown chariots or other perfect
gadgets 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, which tells of a secret entrance to a vast labyrinth of underground galleries under a collapsed building. As evidenced by the Spanish magazine "Mas alia", specializing in the description of all kinds of historical mysteries, this legend, in particular, tells that there are gigantic tunnels in length, crossing the vast mountainous territory of Peru and reaching Brazil and Ecuador. In the language of the Quechua Indians, they are called "Chinkana", which literally means "labyrinth". 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-scale artwork. 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 Cuzco (the only museum in the world dedicated to this noble metal is still operating here). But it also ruined him. The Spanish conquistadors, who conquered the city, plundered the Temple of the Sun, and all its wealth, including the golden statues in the garden, were loaded onto ships and sent to Spain. At the same time, rumors spread about the existence of underground halls and galleries, where the Incas allegedly hid some 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 storages of their ancestors.
Blindfolded his wife, the prince led her through one of the palaces into the dungeon. After long journeys, they found themselves in a huge hall. The prince removed the bandage from his wife's eyes, and in the dim light of a torch she saw golden statues of all twelve Inca kings, 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 reported on her husband to the Spanish authorities, describing in detail about her journey. But the prince, sensing unkindness, disappeared. The last thread that could lead to the underground labyrinth of the Incas was cut off.
Archaeologists find 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 racking their brains: whether it is an underground city of the Order of Malta, or an ancient water supply or sewerage system.
For centuries, it was believed that the Knights-Crusaders had built an underground city on the Mediterranean island of Malta, and rumors circulated among the population about the secret passages and military labyrinths of the Hospitaller Order.
Ar Dalam cave
They built a garage, and found ancient tunnels
This winter, researchers found a network of tunnels beneath the historic center of the Maltese capital, Valletta. These tunnels date from the late 16th - early 17th centuries. It was then that the knights of one of the largest Christian military orders during the crusades of the 11th-13th centuries were busy fortifying Valletta to repel Muslim attacks.
“Many said that there are passages and even a whole underground city. But the question is - where were these tunnels? Did they even exist? Now we think we have found at least a small part of these underground structures, ”said archaeologist Claude Borg, who took part in the excavation.
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 it houses the legislative institutions and the presidential office of Malta. Archaeological exploration was carried out prior to the construction of the underground parking lot.
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 walked under the square and then connected to other canals. An attempt to pass through these corridors was unsuccessful - they were blocked. All corridors found have a high enough vault for an adult to pass through. However, researchers believe that this is only part of an extensive plumbing system.
Restoration architect Edward Said of Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna considers the discovery "just the tip of the iceberg." In his opinion, the tunnels found are part of the water supply and sewerage system, which also includes corridors where those who followed the tunnels and kept them in order could walk.
Building Valletta
The Order of Malta, founded in 1099, became famous for their victories over Muslims during the Crusades. In 1530, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V handed over the island of Malta to the knights. In 1565, the Order, led by the Grand Master La Valetta, was attacked by the Ottoman Turks, but managed to withstand the Great Siege of Malta.
However, this military experience prompted them to begin building a fortress in Malta, named after the master Valletta. The fortification was built on a hill, but there was a lack of natural water sources. According to Sed, the main goal of the city's builders was to provide themselves with the necessary supplies in case of future sieges.
Paul's cave
“They soon realized that there was not enough rainwater and springs at their disposal,” said the architect.
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 supply system. Probably through underground channels and the reservoir was supplied big fountain on the Palace Square. When the British ruled the island (1814-1964), the fountain was demolished.
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How the knights are gone
In 1798, Napoleon expelled the knights from Malta. Now the Order of Malta continues to exist, but its seat is in Rome.
“The fountain was quite an important source of water for the city's residents,” Borg said.
According to Sed, archaeologists have found the remains of centuries-old lead pipes. The corridors connected to this tunnel could have been service passages used by plumbing engineers or so-called fountains.
“The engineer servicing the fountain, together 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.
Didn't the underground city exist?
The tales of secret military passages, according to Sed, have more basis. Secret corridors for warriors could indeed exist under the fortress walls. However, according to Sed, most of the legends about the underground city are in fact stories about the plumbing system.
According to the researcher, the Valletta pipeline system was very progressive for its time. If, for example, you compare Valletta 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 drowned in mud.
Following these findings, the Maltese government announced that the construction of the underground car park was being postponed. A new fountain is about to be erected in the square, and the tunnels, Sad hopes, will subsequently be opened to the general public.
Mexico. Mitla. Mayan underground structures
According to participants, these structures have high quality finishes 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
The pyramids, the sphinx, the ruins of ancient temples on the Giza plateau have amazed the imagination of people for more than one millennium. And here's 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 over tens of kilometers.
While studying one of the tombs, scientists accidentally leaned against the wall, and the rock collapsed. Archaeologists have found the beginning of one of the tunnels. Later, it was believed that the tunnels permeate the entire Giza plateau, on which the great pyramids stand. The chief keeper of Egyptian antiquities said that a group of local and foreign archaeologists began work on drawing up a kind of map of the underground passages under the pyramids. The works are carried out both on the ground and from the air using aerial photography. Exploring the tunnels will give you a fresh perspective on the entire Giza pyramid complex.
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 the unique temple. It may even eclipse the famous temple in Luxor. There is reason to believe that there is a huge, previously unknown complex of buildings, palaces and temples underground. A big obstacle for scientists is that houses, roads and communications have already been built on the lands that covered these unique structures.
Since the declassification of the new deep 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 are recorded under the Tikal complex, leading 800 kilometers across the country. Researchers note that perhaps with the help of these tunnels, the Maya Indians escaped the complete destruction of their culture.
In early 1978, a similar radar (SIRA) was deployed in Egypt and incredible underground complexes were discovered beneath the Egyptian pyramids. A research agreement was signed with Egyptian President Sadat, and the work of 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 know how to summon the spirits of the dead and materialize them. They can sharply increase and decrease the temperature of the surrounding air, which is necessary for the appearance of "shining carts, guided by the 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", preceded by an oath assurance: "I vouch for the absolute truthfulness of the above."
Joseph Ferrier is silent about how he managed to become a guest of the system of underground labyrinths forbidden for outsiders, “very confusing and cramped, almost unsuitable for free breathing and movement, but with salts, in which they are forced to live from birth to death. Because the life of every hereditary sorcerer has a special meaning, nowhere else but on the local plateau ”. 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 a bodily shell. After death, it is released, becoming a spirit outside the body. Therefore, using special techniques, sorcerers ensure that the spirits who have taken flesh can be next to us, among us. Believe it or not, copies of these once living are found in labyrinths, walking among the living. I myself have repeatedly confused phantoms with people. Only Kolobros sorcerers do not confuse ”.
The rituals of materialization, the creation 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 room,” Ferrier writes, “I immediately received eight or ten electric shocks. Doubts disappeared. The metallized room did not differ much from the metallized inner volume of the condenser jar, and, apparently, was needed by the sorcerers-mediums for their afterlife rites. I was convinced of this when they stood in their loincloths, clasped their hands, and began to sing a song without words. My ears buzzed. I bit my tongue when I saw thin silvery hoops spinning around the heads of the sorcerers, scattering wet, cold sparkles. Sequins fell on the brass underfoot, forming a kind of spider web, red like blood. Faintly visible likenesses of human bodies slowly sprouted from the cobweb. They stood, vibrating shaky 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 filled with electricity, began to flicker.
Finding the power of speech, I asked the sorcerer Aotuk, what will happen next? Aotuk said that further 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, shadows became completely indistinguishable from people - thinking, with beating hearts, capable of lifting and carrying weights weighing up to ten kilograms, sometimes more. The rituals of "humanizing disembodied spirits" seemed to Ferrier to be similar to the European medieval rituals of summoning the dead. Whether this is so can be judged by an excerpt from the sketch:
“The most dangerous ritual for sorcerers to lure the dead takes a lot of bodily strength. Best of all, the Sabbath is successful in the period 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 the altar table covered with a triangular canvas, on which are a pewter goblet, black cord and censer, iron trident and knife, 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 the sand, the sorcerers kindle incense and begin to invite guests to the meal. When they approach, the trident begins to flash with a blue light, the knife - red. The cord burns out completely. Flames erupt from the floor, repeating the contours of the Egyptian sacred cross, symbolizing eternal life... Throwing a wooden skull and bones into the fire - 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. The candles are extinguished too. Silence, saturated with the smell of incense, disappears. A strong phosphoric glow spreads under the ceiling.
“Go away, go away, shadows of the dead. We will not allow you to come to us until you become alive for us. May there be agreement between us. Yes, be that! " - the sorcerers shout deafeningly. There are no shadows anymore. Instead of shadows, there are detailed bodily repetitions with which to consult when important decisions are required.
Ask why underground sorcerers in clothes prefer loincloths? Because negotiations with the resurrected ones thin the fabrics of the clothes, no matter how good the fabrics are. I had a new linen suit. Several 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. Everyone lingers among the Kolobros sorcerers for at least a year: “When the figure of the“ neighbor ”fades, when his inner energy is depleted, a rite of return to the shadows is arranged for him - a quick, purely formal one. How else? Knowledge gained. "Neighbor" is not needed. He, no matter how much the sorcerers want, will never return. " However, it is from this fleeting rite that the main rite - the heavenly carts - begins. Ferrier does not write anything about the magical components of this action. He only reports that he saw how in the sky over the Huaras plateau "with a terrible roar and grinding, the fiery wheels swept and crashed into the edge of the Kolobros canyon." The sorcerers did not allow him to meet with the "gods of the seventh heaven", citing the fact that mere mortals cannot communicate with immortals. To Ferrier's objection that the sorcerers themselves, being mortals, nevertheless meet with the heavenly gods, the inhabitants of Kolobros replied that contacts are not frequent, they are carried out only on the initiative of immortals who make 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 contemplate." Even experienced speleologists do not risk visiting the labyrinths of Kolobros. One of them, American Michael Stern, dreams of being there. The expedition plans for the summer of 2008, not paying attention to the more frequent natural anomalies. These are local earthquakes, and nightly above-ground glow, and mud geysers in the area of labyrinths, and flights of fireballs, and "landing" of ghosts with pear-shaped heads. Local residents have no doubt that the Kolobros dungeons are still inhabited. A stranger's way there, without the knowledge of the owners, has been ordered. Stern persists: “I am not a slave to superstition, I don’t 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) - the underground country
The only and still unconfirmed sources of information about the mysterious Agharti are the publication of the Pole F. Ossendowski, a member of the Council of Ministers in the Kolchak government, who held the post of director of the Credit Chancellery2 during the civil war in the Siberian government, who later fled to Mongolia, and, published twelve years earlier, Saint-Yves d'Alveidre's Mission to India. Both authors argue about the existence of the underworld - a spiritual center that has a non-human origin, and keeps the Primordial wisdom, passing it down through the centuries from generation to generation by secret societies. The inhabitants of the underworld are far superior in their technical development to mankind, have mastered unknown energies and are connected with all continents through underground passages. A comparative analysis of both versions of the Agharti myth was carried out in his work “King of the World” by the French scientist Rene Guénon: “If there really are two versions of this story originating from sources that are very distant from each other, then it was interesting to find them and make a thorough comparison”.
The French esoteric thinker, the Marquis of Saint-Yves d'Alveidre (1842-1909) left a noticeable mark on history by writing books about ancient occult history3 and formulating a new universal law of history and human society, which he called "Synarchy". The ideas of a 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 Kharji Sharif, the envoy of the World Occult Government" and the Agartha center 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 chronicles of mankind for the entire time of its evolution on this earth during 556 centuries, recorded on stone tablets4. The chronology of mankind and the prescription of the teachings of St. 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 the state structure of Agharti and gives quite original details, for example, such as:
“The modern mystical name of the Sanctuary of the Cycle of Rama was given to it about 5100 years ago, after the split of Irshu. This name is "Agartha", which means: "inaccessible to violence", "unattainable for Anarchy." It is enough for my readers to know that in some areas of the Himalayas, among 22 temples depicting the 22 arcana of Hermes and 22 letters of some sacred alphabets5, Agartha constitutes the mystical Zero (0). "Not found".
* “None of our terrible punishment systems are applied in Agartha, and there are no prisons. Does not exist 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 (Agartha) there is one wandering tribe, which, since the 15th century, has been showing all of Europe its strange experiences. This is the true origin of the gypsies (Bohami - in Sanc., "Get away from me").
* Agartha can follow Souls at all ascending degrees 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 secrets of the ancient Ancestor Cult ”.
* The sages of Agartha "checked the boundaries of the last flood on our Planet and determined the possible starting point of its renewal in thirteen or fourteen centuries."
* "The founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni, was initiated at the Agartta Sanctuary, but he could not take his notes out of Agartta and subsequently dictated to his first disciples only what his memory could hold."
* “Not a single initiate can take away from Agartha the original texts of her scientific works, for, as I have already said, they are engraved on the stone in the form of signs incomprehensible to the crowd. The threshold of the Sanctuary is inaccessible without the will of the disciple. Its basement is magically built in various ways, in which the Divine word plays a role, as in all ancient temples. "
* "The sacred texts, due to political conditions, were systematically changed everywhere, with the exception of only one Agartha, where all the lost secrets of the Hebrew-Egyptian text of our own Scriptures and the keys to their mysteries are preserved"
Saint Yves does not give an answer to the question of where Agartha is located; in the text there is only one indirect indication that symbolically Agartha touches Afghanistan with his head, and with his legs, i.e. its foot rests on Burmania. This territory corresponds to the area Himalayan mountains little explored at the time. A striking description of the most secret sanctuary on Earth, which has lost ancient knowledge, subsequently inspired the search for this secret sanctuary in Tibet, both by various scientists and adventurers, and by statesmen from different countries planning to send expeditions to little-explored regions of Central Asia, in particular to establish an alliance with Agartha.
Remnant: From the Ashes is a co-op third-person shooter with a procedurally generated world that encourages players to play through it multiple times. Each new playthrough of the campaign results in a new set of dungeons that players can explore across different worlds. To help you find and navigate these locations, we have decided to publish this small guide.
Useful Notes:
- The land is divided into four main levels: the town area in front of the church (town area # 1), the Church, the town area after the church (town area # 2) and the Guardian's Tower. Both the Church and the Guardian's Tower are fixed locations, as they are connected with the storyline.
- City area # 1 will always have the following layout: one dungeon with a mini-boss (Shadow / Ripper), one dungeon without a boss and a Subway.
- City area # 2 will always have the following layout: one dungeon with a mini-boss, one dungeon without a boss, and a world boss.
- You can determine the type of dungeon you enter by examining its passage. Each dungeon has a unique environment, which is directly reflected in its passage.
Dungeons of the Earth with bosses
A total of six bosses can be faced on Earth. Of these six, four are found in dungeons, and two are world opponents. In one playthrough, you may well face 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 named The Ripper.
- Hidden Sanctuary (Sewer Passage): Walk through this area to reach a location called the Infected Well. There is a boss named Shadow.
- Cutthroat's Channel (Sewer Passage): This is the bandit's area. Go through it to get to the Depot. Here you will face a boss named Brabus. You can exchange his pocket watch for bandit armor.
- Tangled Passage (Fissure Passage): Go through it to reach an area called Artery. The Slasher dwells here.
- Choking Hollow (Tunnel Passage): This area contains the world boss, Ent.
- Ash Yard (Tunnel Passage): This area contains the world boss, Scorch.
Dungeons of the Earth 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 repel several waves of opponents.
- Hidden Grotto (Sewer Passage): Get the Hunter's Key from the appropriate 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 obtained key and take away all valuable things, including the Huntress Pistol.
- Dump (Sewer Passage): This area is home to an NPC named Mad Merchant. You can trade with him without mentioning his mask. If you keep talking about the subject on his face, he will attack you. Kill him to get the Chain Mask. Then talk to Weeping Tree to unlock the Woodskin talent.
- Metro: This is a story-driven 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 (Fissure Passage): There are no quest items in this dungeon and ends with a dead end checkpoint.
- Warren (Fissure Passage): Head through the new area to reach the Land's End. Help the two Lizzies defend against the coming attack of the Roots.
- Hangman (Tunnel Passage): You will need to survive waves of enemies while waiting for the metamorphosis to occur. After completing the quest, you will be able to interact with the Root Temple to create a set of Wicker Armor.
- Bone Pass (Sewer Entrance): Find and speak to the Cultist to obtain the Crown Root. Once that is done, destroy the two Root Nodes and then kill the cultist to obtain the Ring of Wicker Thorns.
- Monkey Key: A dungeon with a locked door that can be opened with a monkey key.
This is the entire list of dungeons that you can visit on Earth while playing Remnant: From the Ashes. Once again, we note that you will not be able to visit all of them at once.
