Its rock-hewn churches date from the 12th century and are not to be missed.

I had mine alone like a badger in my rock-hewn hole.

From this hall, a long, rock-hewn corridor led away.

Further to the east, the ruins of another smaller temple lie on a rock-hewn terrace.

Summer took Pitt's arm and led him out into a well-lit rock-hewn corridor.

Then they passed through and into a rock-hewn chamber, for that was what it was, not a natural cave.

He passed under an arch of shining leaves, and walked swiftly down rock-hewn steps to the white beach.

One of them constructed the astounding rock-hewn churches at Lalibela.

But Lalibela takes some topping, not least because the rock-hewn churches are still very much active.

Rock-hewn thighs were in her line of vision.

She fought with desperation but seemed to do no more than situate herself further between his rock-hewn thighs.

There was nothing moving below, no sign that Orkhad's people had any use for that series of rock-hewn ways.

There were dozens, scores of them, forming a semicircle on the rock-hewn shoreline.

Many rock-hewn winepresses and vats, dating to the biblical period, have been found.

Descending the Jacob's ladder, I made my way down the rock-hewn passage.

He glanced quickly, a soldier's wary glance, at the other rock-hewn passageways.

A distinctive feature of Tigray are its rock-hewn churches.

Especially the stairs/ and with her climbing the rock-hewn steps she had known so intimately, and holding my hand, we started up.

In the gloomy subterranean church is a rock-hewn sepulcher.

The impressive rock-hewn tombs are in the Sanhedria quarter.

The ossuaries were then placed in family burial caves, either rock-hewn or manually built.

Ferd and Pete scurried out of the rock-hewn chamber.

Situated about a mile outside the center of town, it is beautifully decorated with artifacts inspired by the rock-hewn churches.

An archaeological site near Fir'im contained the ruins of buildings and rock-hewn tombs.

The site consists of a series of rock-hewn burial chambers based on natural caverns.