Re:Beneath Istanbul, Archaeologists Explore an Ancient City'...
by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday July 25, 2021 @11:11AM
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Reminds me of how Ankh-Morpork is mostly built on Ankh-Morpork, most people have basements they don't even know they have and dwards can dig through the lower, older layers of the city to get around without using the surface streets. I can't find a quote on the internet, but wikipedia says a few words about this:
"To William’s complete lack of surprise, the little cellar under the shed was much better built than the shed itself. But then, practically everywhere in Ankh-Morpork had cellars that were once the first or even second or third floors of ancient buildings, built at the time of one of the city’s empires when men thought that the future was going to last for ever. And then the river had flooded and brought mud with it, and walls had gone higher and, now, what Ankh-Morpork was built on was mostly Ankh-Morpork. People said that anyone with a good sense of direction and a pickaxe could cross the city underground by simply knocking holes in walls."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork#Geography
Edit: Oh, wait, found it, here:
"To William’s complete lack of surprise, the little cellar under the shed was much better built than the shed itself. But then, practically everywhere in Ankh-Morpork had cellars that were once the first or even second or third floors of ancient buildings, built at the time of one of the city’s empires when men thought that the future was going to last for ever. And then the river had flooded and brought mud with it, and walls had gone higher and, now, what Ankh-Morpork was built on was mostly Ankh-Morpork. People said that anyone with a good sense of direction and a pickaxe could cross the city underground by simply knocking holes in walls."
https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/8pt83h/can_anyon...
Quoted from The Truth.