Mysterious Dungeons

The underground world is studied by true experts: travelers, geologists, archaeologists, speleologists, paleontologists, glaciologists, volcanologists, biologists, geographers, historians, ufologists… However, less than 2% of underground cavities—caves, tunnels, sinkholes—have been explored, mostly only superficially and in fragments. Things are somewhat better with man-made structures: underground temples, tunnels, dwellings, cities, water reservoirs… But science still cannot answer the question: how could people create these works so patiently and meticulously, like ants, over hundreds of years?
This audiobook tells of the great mysteries and phenomena of the underground world.

Contents:

1. The Egyptian (Fayum) labyrinth
2. “The Deep Well” — Derynkuy — the calling card of Cappadocia
3. An ancient unnamed rock city on the Mesa Verde plateau
4. Revealed and unrevealed secrets of underground Moscow
5. Underground Naples
6. The realm of life and death—subterranean dungeons of Paris
7. St. Petersburg tunnels and slums
8. Catacombs of the Eternal City of Rome
9. The ancient cave city of Uplistsikhe
10. The cave city of Chufut-Kale
11. Yoduns, or the land of underground inhabitants
12. Odessa catacombs
13. Caves of the Beit Guvrin National Park
14. Underground Königsberg—Kaliningrad
15. Mysterious underground corridors of Zhizor Castle
16. Some mysteries of underground London and the London Underground
17. The burrow of the white man—Coober Pedy
18. Sanctuaries of the Apocalypse, or anti-nuclear bunkers in New Zealand
19. Lechugilya—the beauty of the “Carlsbad Caverns” National Park
20. The cave of swallows and heavenly fish
21. The Muruk and Minye caves—giants of the Southern Hemisphere
22. The Syaoqiayi Tianken karst sinkhole—“a heavenly pit”
23. The cave of the nymphs Melissani
24. The icy world of the Eiseisenwelt cave
25. Pierre-Saint-Martin’s tough nut
26. The lava giant of Kazumura
27. A place of melodies and inspiration. Fingal’s Cave
28. Altamira—the Sistine Chapel of the Paleolithic
29. Underground mushroom plantations of Monsieur Chambéry and underground gardens of Balthazar Forestier
30. The Lascaux cave—Versailles of cave paintings
31. Cueva de los Verdes, born of the Montecorona volcano
32. Caves of flesh and spirit