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A beam of sunlight illuminates a large circular stone door inside a rock-cut chamber of an underground city, with dark passages leading off into the surrounding volcanic tuff walls.

Deep in the underground city of Derinkuyu in Cappadocia, a rock-cut chamber where a shaft of daylight falls down an ancient ventilation shaft onto a great round rolling stone door, the soft volcanic tuff glowing where it lands, the passages beyond dark, 24mm, a palette of tuff ochre, pale gold and shadow. Mehr sehen

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