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                The Secret Temple (that's not so secret anymore)
                                        
> Here, 100ft down and hidden from public view, lies an astonishing secret
> one that has drawn comparisons with the fabled city of Atlantis and has
> been dubbed “the Eighth Wonder of the World” by the Italian government.
> 
> For weaving their way underneath the hillside are nine ornate temples, on
> five levels, whose scale and opulence take the breath away.
> 
> Constructed like a three-dimensional book, narrating the history of
> humanity, they are linked by hundreds of metres of richly decorated tunnels
> and occupy almost 300,000 cubic feet—Big Ben is 15,000 cubic feet.
> 
> …
> 
> Indeed, the Italian government was not even aware of their existence until
> a few years ago.
> 
> But the “Temples of Damanhur” are not the great legacy of some long-lost
> civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker
> from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into
> the rock.
> 

Via Instapundit [1], “Eighth wonder of the world? The stunning temples
secretly carved out below ground by “paranormal” eccentric [2]”

It's amazing what Oberto Airaudi has been able to accomplish, unseen, in
thirty years of work.

[1] http://instapundit.com/archives2/012145.php
[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_a

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