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Eleven churches carved straight down into living rock

The entrance to the rock-hewn Church of Bet Emmanuel in Lalibela, Ethiopia, is surprisingly well preserved considering people have been coming and going since the 13th century. I would have expecte
The entrance to the rock-hewn Church of Bet Emmanuel in Lalibela, Ethiopia, is surprisingly well preserved considering people have been coming and going since the 13th century. I would have… © A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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