Unesco’s findings of art structures in Gerome valley neither refers to Byzantine period nor this region falls under any Byzantine province; its rock-hewn sanctuaries are a geographical peculiarity of the region itself.

The total description of the region as reflected in Unesco’s website marks how academic scholarship has failed to link the ancient history of the region with its present existing structural sites of Gerome which identifies itself with Mt Gerrim of the Bible, the Skythian stronghold of human civilization at the ‘centre of the earth’.

Cappadocia is as same as Kappakandara of Pali texts. Pali texts inform that a village, a river and a monastery in the same name in this locality where a fortress in the name of Javamala also stood there. It was also called Kappakandara Piyangu-dvipa.

Ancient Anatolia is as same as An-to-la of the Chinese pilgrim Hiouen Tsiang that identifies Antarakula of the ancient world. This name marks the buffer zone or the boundary between two countries or two city-states. City of Nevsehir, identifies ancient Nabhsthala(centre of the earth) or Nebo of the Bible, Urgup stands for Urag or the Serpent Plain or the Negev, and Avanos is as same as Avanti of ancient literature. The sites of Karain, Karlik, Yesiloz, Soganli and Kaymaki and Derinkuyu, similarly, are identified with ancient Karnan, Kalasi or Kalsi, Shello-Luz , Sogada, Kamakshi(Qumran of the Bible) and Erkanta respectively; the mountain ranges of Erciyes identifies Eros or Orisi, and Hasan refers to San or Sana or Issan mountain.

The most striking and interesting name which reveals the ancientness of the place comes from the name and fame of Basileions the Great Bishop of Kayseri. While Basileions pinpoints ancient Baisali, Kayseri stands for Kesuria(of Indian puranas) that magnificently refers to Caesarea , the seat of Roman power in the kingdom of Kosala or Cos of the Bible.

There exists certain degree of misunderstanding on the name of ‘troglodyte’ which modern scholars relate this term here to ‘troglodyte villages’; it marks the name of a place called Troglodyte or ‘Tri-garta’ of Indian puranas. Its meaning as a pre-historic place of undignified people is not right.

Cappadocian monasticism was there in 6^th c B.C; its decoration of many sanctuaries which kept a strict minimum of symbols(painted crosses) identify the ancient ‘ladder’ symbols.

Gerome Valley in Turkey is a scene of ancient migrants and names like Tokali Kilese, Elmah Kilise, and Karanlik Kilise pinpoint the ancient region of Kalasi that identifies Koili, Mahal and Karnal in Gerome region which is very central and nerve of the ancient world that identifies both Mt Nebo and Canaan.