15 Beautiful Buildings Carved from ‘Living Rock’

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	15 Beautiful Buildings Carved from ‘Living Rock’
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1-24-2009 2:14 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/024d9472-b57d-44b8-9886-ac8784a9ed76/57C0EDBD-ADFF-45AB-9DB3-3E5C09D363E5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://webecoist.com/2008/12/08/15-beautiful-buildings-carved-from-living-rock/" href="http://webecoist.com/2008/12/08/15-beautiful-buildings-carved-from-living-rock/" style="font-size: 11px;">webecoist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/12/08/15-beautiful-buildings-carved-from-living-rock/"><H2><A title="15 Beautiful Buildings Carved from ‘Living Rock’" href="http://webecoist.com/2008/12/08/15-beautiful-buildings-carved-from-living-rock/" linkindex="8" set="yes">15 Beautiful Buildings Carved from ‘Living Rock’</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/12/08/15-beautiful-buildings-carved-from-living-rock/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/webecoist.com/img/8D43ECA1-21E7-417A-BFBA-E30C126EC1C3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webecoist.com/2008/12/08/15-beautiful-buildings-carved-from-living-rock/"><P>Perhaps among some of the most astonishing buildings in the world are those cut from living rock. Known as rock-cut architecture, buildings like this can be found all over the world from Myanmar to Ethiopia and many contain priceless works of ancient art. Some of these incredible carved caves date back thousands of years while others are surprisingly a bit more modern than you’d think. These 15 buildings carved from colossal cliffs, monoliths and volcanic rock are breathtakingly beautiful and a fascinating look inside the traditions of cultures long gone.
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