Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1910 — An Underground City. [ARTICLE]

An Underground City.

Russian explorers have made a singular and most interesting discovery ota subterranean city in Central Asia. In Turkestan, on the right bank of the Amu Darya, in a chain of rocky hills near the Bokharan town of Karki, are a number of large caves, which upon examination were found to lead to an underground city, built, apparently, long before the Christian era. According to the effigies, inscriptions and designs upon the gofd and silver money unearthed from among the ruins, the existence of the town dates back to some two centuries before the birth of Christ. The edifices contain all kinds of domestic utensils, pots, urns and vases. The high degree of civilization attained by the inhabitants of the city is shown by the fact that they built in several stories; by the symmetry of the streets and squares, and by the beauty of the baked clay and metal utensils, and of the ornaments and coins which have been found. It Is supposed that long centuries ago this city, so carefully concealed in the bowels of the earth, provided large numbers of people with a refuge from the Incursions of nomadic savages and robbers.