Karain Cave is one of the most interesting historical and archaeological sites and the largest natural cave in Turkey. It is located near the village of Yagdzha (district Yenikoy) in the Mediterranean countries, where some 27 kilometers north-west of Antalya, on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains Chan. The cave is located at a height of about three hundred and seventy meters above sea level and eighty meters up the hill, where the area is bordered by West Taurus plain of tufa. The height of the cave is a hundred and fifty meters.

In addition to the natural value of Karain it is also a great historical. Thanks especially to its great location and the convenience of it, from the time of the Paleolithic era - twenty-five thousand years ago, was inhabited by people who have left a large number of real reminders of his time.

The cave was first discovered in 1946. In the same year it came down and the first scientific expedition to the underground labyrinths, led by Ismail Kilic Koktenom. However, due to the crisis that erupted in the postwar years, the excavation for an indefinite period of time had to be suspended. They renew their Ishin Yalchinkayya led only in 1985. All research work was carried out mainly in the hall "Karain-E." Karain Cave began to study more thoroughly since 1996, when the department in charge of the excavations began prehistoric times University of Liege (Belgium).

Cave conditionally divided into seven rooms, dubbed with the letters of the alphabet from A to G. The greatest interest among tourists enjoy room E, which were found the bones of Neanderthal age of two hundred thousand years. This hall - the largest treasure trove of ancient monuments in the world. The cultural layer here is about eleven meters, which is found guns Acheulean, Mousterian and Aurignacian eras, made of stone.

In the cave there is only one entrance, and it leads to three large halls and small Anatolian Civilizations Museum, which houses a collection of artifacts found during excavations Karain - products made of stone and bone hunter-gatherers who lived in a cave.

It is noteworthy that in this cave were found the remains of ancient man on the territory of modern Turkey, as well as fragments of ancient weapons, arrowheads, tools and bones of prehistoric animals such as the cave bear, a wolf, a lion and a hippopotamus. The Mousterian layer, and in the interim between him and the Aurignacian, were found two ancient human teeth, one of which belongs to Neanderthals.

Judging by the inscriptions, which are richly decorated walls of the cave, we can conclude that it was used in ancient times not only as shelter but also as a place of worship. Perhaps there was a place of worship and sacrifice. It is also assumed that in different periods of the cave was a place of burial. Inside the cave there have been major destruction and landslides.

In the halls illuminated by electric subdued light, made a special observation platforms for tourists. The cave has many beautiful stalactites and stalagmites formed over many millennia by natural means. Preserved here as well and place of the excavation, to them could see the interest of tourists. The cave maintains a constant temperature of about twenty degrees, is quite humid.