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Eleven churches carved straight down into living rock

Like windows in other 13th century rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, this window resembles the top of an Axumite obelisk. This window offers a particularly good example of the fascinating asymmetric det
Like windows in other 13th century rock-hewn churches at Lalibela, this window resembles the top of an Axumite obelisk. This window offers a particularly good example of the fascinating asymmetric… © A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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