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Eleven churches carved straight down into living rock

This interesting assembly of hardware secures one of the doors in the 13th-century rock-hewn Church of Bet Emmanuel in Lalibela, Ethiopia. I believe the skillfully carved stone of the interior wall i
This interesting assembly of hardware secures one of the doors in the 13th-century rock-hewn Church of Bet Emmanuel in Lalibela, Ethiopia. I believe the skillfully carved stone of the interior wall… © A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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