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Rock-Cut Architecture

Posted in Oddities by Greg Ross on October 22nd, 2006

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You think your job’s bad. This was carved by hand from solid rock.

India has more than 1,200 such structures, the earliest dating to 8000 B.C.

(Image: Wikimedia Commons)