Rock-cut architecture
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rock-cut-architecture-188-16975250
title:
Rock-cut architecture
text:
Rock-cut architecture is the creation of structures, buildings, and sculptures by excavating solid rock where it naturally occurs. Intensely laborious when using ancient tools and methods, rock-cut architecture was presumably combined with quarrying the rock for use elsewhere. In India and China, the terms cave and cavern are often applied to this form of man-made architecture, but caves and caverns that began in natural form are not considered to be rock-cut architecture even if extensively mod
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description:
Structures and sculptures cut into solid rock
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-cut_architecture
date created:
2005-08-27T01:06:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T08:09:39Z
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