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A view of a 72-foot-long tunnel that descends 26 feet below the surface at the Late Bronze Age site of Nerik in what was Anatolia’s Hittite Empire. At its end, the tunnel reaches a water source referred to in Hittite writings dating to 3,500 years ago as the “spring loved by the Weather God.”
Descending dozens of slick steps worn smooth by millennia of use, guided only by stone walls, one can almost hear echoes of prayers to long-lost gods hovering in the cool, damp air of a narrow unde
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