[UCANSEE2]

I found something interesting and new to me. I had heard of the claim that the Covenant of the Ark was in Ethiopia, but I had not before heard of or seen the Rock Hewn Churches there in Lalibela (eleven churches carved in the ground out of the solid rock of a mountain, each with an underground spring well).

To give this some scale, the little white things in the lower left corner are houses.

Maybe you could feature it in a thread sometime. The history of it is very interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/lalibela/index

Lalibela [The Mystery of Ethiopia’s Extraordinary Excavated Churches]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2682976/posts

Ethiopia: lifting the mystery on rock churches ‘built by angels’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2262046/posts

Medieval Houses Of God, Or Ancient Fortresses?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1250453/posts

Major discovery on eve of obelisk’s return (Ethiopia)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1435149/posts

Axum’s ancient treasure
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1619913/posts

On the Trail of the Ark
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/754994/posts

Keepers of the Lost Ark?[Ethiopia][Ark of the Covenant]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1931280/posts

World religious leaders hold their own G8 summit (Ark of the ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2275545/posts

The Biblical Canon and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2810310/posts

[Talisker]

The Lalibela churches are literally mind-boggling.

They cannot be.

But there they are.

[SueRae]

Amazing.

[Renfield]

Did you know that these churches were carved by the Knights Templar?