An underground city in France where people have lived for thousands of years

The Barry Troglodyte Village is a low building complex of dwelling build undeground in the south of France . Though underground homes are unusual , that ’s not the weirdest part about this place . These ulterior houses have been occupied continuously by citizenry for chiliad of years – from the neolithic era of stray tribes , to the early 20th century .

Though the edifice are crumbling now , you’re able to still see the rooms that people carve into the hillside in the neolithic era , along with the stone bulwark built by later genesis . Many of the wall contain elaborated carvings like the one pictured above , which looks like a skull .

According to Atlas Obscura :

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After being live in for centuries , the home startle to fall apart in the eighteenth century . From 500 CE to the 1800s , the routine of inhabitants in the small town fell to only about 50 . At the beginning of the 20th century only one widow and her servant persist in the Greenwich Village and they were convinced to leave after a number of collapses kill off their neighbors .

Overlooking the Rhone Valley , the hill that contains the village was a strategically chosen site . From the top of the forested , shady hill , one can view far to the magnetic north , Cicily Isabel Fairfield , and south and observe for any approach terror .

archaeologist dig in the sphere have establish Paleolithic pointer heads , tongue , Neolithic polished - Isidor Feinstein Stone axes , and a compendium of other prehistorical tool .

Bark Watch

There are very few long - term clandestine metropolis , and the Barry Trogolodyte Village is one of them . human may have abandoned the crumble structures over the last 100 years , but we may soon be looking to reopen them – specially if we ’re hit with a comet or zombi attack . In the event of flaming death from the sky , there ’s nowhere safer to be than underground .

ViaAtlas Obscura

range of a function byJean AvenasandLe Loup Voyou

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