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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Tim Hanlon

Inside mysterious hidden tunnel and rooms unearthed under 1,500-year-old church

A mysterious network of tunnels and rooms with mosaics and marble have been found underneath a church dating back 1,500 years.

Archaeologists are trying to investigate the reasons for the subterranean pathways which are in the oldest part of Istanbul.

The network is likely to be part of the huge Church of St Polyeuctus which was constructed when the city, then known as Constantinople, was Christian.

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