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Eleven churches carved straight down into living rock

Images of saints are faintly visible in panels high on the wall of the 13th century church of Bet Maryam in Lalibela, Ethiopia.
Images of saints are faintly visible in panels high on the wall of the 13th century church of Bet Maryam in Lalibela, Ethiopia. © A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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