Caves Nobody Remembers Digging

Beneath a Chinese village sit dozens of enormous, precisely carved sandstone caverns, hollowed out by hand roughly 2,000 years ago — with zero written…

Why we kept this

Someone organized a massive hand-dug excavation two thousand years ago and left absolutely zero record of why.

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