It occurred to me that the pillars in the "pool" section of Karahan Tepe bear a striking resemblance to the fairy chimneys not far away in Cappadocia. Could it be possible that the pool was created that way in order to be filled with water to re-tell the story of a catastrophic flooding of Derinkuyu? I understand that this would make Derinkuyu older than currently suspected, but the resemblance is uncanny, and it's not a far-fetched idea that early hunter gatherers would build a monument as a sort of memorial to the lives lost in such a flood. Poke holes in the hypothesis all you want, I'm just a jazz musician waxing poetic over here.
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