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Encyclopedia Britannica



AGGTELEK

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 375 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AGGTELEK , a
village
  of
Hungary
 , in the county of Gomor, situated to the
south
  of Rozsnyo, on the road from Budapest to Dobsina. Pop. (190o) 557. In the neighbourhood is the celebrated Aggtelek or Baradla cavern, one of the largest and most remarkable stalactite grottos in Europe. It has a length, together with its ramifications, of over 5 miles, and is formed of two cavernsone known for several centuries, and another discovered by the naturalist Adolf Schmidl in 1856. Two entrances give
access
  to the grotto, an old one extremely narrow, and a new one, made in 189o, through which the exploration of the cavern can be made in about 8
hours
 , half the time it took before. The cavern is composed of a 1'abyrinth of passages and large and small halls, and is traversed by a stream. In these caverns there are numerous stalactite structures, which, from their curious and fantastic shapes, have received such names as the Image of the Virgin, the
Mosaic
  Altar, &c. The
principal
  parts are the Paradies with the finest stalactites, the Astronomical Tower and the Beinhaus. Rats, frogs and bats form actually the only
animal
 
life
  in the caves, but a
great
  number of antediluvian
animal
  bones have been found here, as well as human bones and numerous remains of prehistoric human settlements.


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