In a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia, some 645 km from Addis Ababa, eleven medieval monolithic ... a system of trenches. The churches were not constructed in a traditional way but rather ...

perched in Ethiopia’s Lasta mountains at 2,600m. The town is home to 11 medieval rock-cut churches so revered, Unesco included them on the original World Heritage list in 1978 – a list of then ...

Ethiopia claims to be the oldest Christian country in the world. And despite being ravaged by poverty, faith has remained strong over the centuries; Lalibela’s medieval rock-hewn churches are ...

It’s a common scene here in Lalibela, a small town in northern Ethiopia that’s home to 11 spectacular churches carved both inside and out from a single rock some 900 years ago. The chiseled ...

Ethiopia's King Lalibela commissioned the church ... Hewn from red volcanic rock and standing in a deep pit, this centuries-old monument is one of the world's most unique medieval churches.

If we exclude the sources of the Blue Nile, ultimately a work of nature, the most important and striking monument in Ethiopia ...

There's a mysterious site in Africa that some say was built by angels. Carved deep in a mountainous region of Ethiopia stand 11 churches, each cut from a huge block of rock some 800 years ago.

NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA, Nov 7 (Reuters) - A fresh eruption of fighting in northern Ethiopia has raised concerns among residents about the safety of rock-hewn ... Lalibela's 11 medieval cave churches ...

The lips of generations of pilgrims have smoothed the door frames on its millennia-old rock-hewn churches. Inside, naked bulbs illuminate intricately gilded paintings of Ethiopia’s four sainted ...