Cave dwellings have been found in many regions of the world. Besides being used as a residence, the Cave is also used as a place of worship and is usually combined with the surface structure. After the cave cities no longer inhabited, the surface structure of the cave collapsed and only just left. But not all have been abandoned cave dwellings. In certain areas in the north of China, cave dwellings are still commonly used as a home by more than 40 million people.
Guyaju
Often referred to as China's largest maze, Guyaju is an ancient cave home which is located about 92 kilometers (57 miles) from Beijing. No record of this ancient house ever found, so no one knows the origin of history. This house carved into the steep cliff overlooking Zhangshanying City. The house is composed of more than 110 rooms of stone, and is home to the largest cave ever discovered in China.
Matmata
Matmata is a small village in southern Tunisia. Some local Berber residents live in traditional underground dwelling "troglodyte". These cave dwellings are created by digging a large hole in the ground. Around the hole and then dug to be used as a room. Photo above is a home that became known as serve as the home location of Luke Skywalker and his aunt and uncle, Lars. Actually this is the Hotel Sidi Driss and until now one place that must visit in Matmata for any fan of Star Wars fanatic ..
Bamiyan
Bamiyan in central Afghanistan is famous for two giant standing Buddha statues carved into the world's highest cliff side made in the 6th century. These statues destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001, with the statue statue alasanr that this is an insult to Islam. Cave dwellings at the foot of the statue, which at one time was home to thousands of monks, used by the Taliban for storing weapons. After the Taliban were driven from the region, civilians made their homes in caves. Many caves had remnants of wall paintings in the paint (Fresco). In 2008 a giant statue is a statue of Buddha lying other with a length of 19 meters (62 feet) was discovered near the ruins of the Buddhist Bamiyan.
Joke of the author: "This statue survived because when the Taliban bombed a standing Buddha statue, the statue is the down ..."
Sassi di Matera
Sassi di Matera ("stones of Matera") is the cave dwellings situated in the old town of Matera in southern Italy. Sassi caves prehistoric settlement comes from, and including one of the first human settlements in Italy. Many houses were made by digging into the tufa rock, and indeed this is actually houses a cave, and roads in some parts of the Sassi often situated on the roof of another house. In 1950, the government forcibly relocated the majority of the population Sassi to areas of developing modern city. However, some people still live in the same Sassi as their ancestors 9,000 years ago.
Mesa Verde
Mesa Verde, in southwestern Colorado, is the home of the famous cliff dwellings of ancient Anasazi. Site This is probably the archaeological site of Native American culture in the United States are the most durable significantly. In the 12th century, the Anasazi began to build houses in the shallow caves and under rocks depend along the canyon wall. Some of these houses magnitude of 150 rooms. The most famous is the Cliff Palace and Spruce Tree House. At tahun1300an, all Anasazi had left Mesa Verde area, but ruins remain and almost perfectly preserved. Reason departure anasazi tribes suddenly until now remained unexplained. Existing theories range from crop failure due to drought until the arrival of foreign tribes from the North.
Bandiagara cliffs
Bandiagara Escarpment is a rock wall in the village of Dogon, Mali whose height reaches almost 500 meters (1,640 feet) of sandy soil lower flat underneath. Inig cliffs dotted with ancient cave houses Tellem tribe. This tribe sculpt their homes to the cliff cliff so their dead can be buried in the heights far above the reach of flash floods are common in the area. They built dozens of villages along the cliffs above the cave. In the 14th century, Dogon Tellem tribe expel and to date remains Dogon tribe inhabiting the area. More read here
Vardzia
Located in the south Georgia, Vardzia is a cave monastery and city of the 12th century were built by making the cave cave on a hill. This city is now one of the most spectacular scenery in the country, after experiencing landslides hills and caves make it exposed to the outside. Cave dwellings were built during the reign of Queen Tamar's, intended as protection from the Mongols. This cave city consists of 600 apartments and 13 floors. Inside the cave there are churches City, the throne room, and the irrigation system watering terraced farmlands. Access to the cave city before the landslide, through some well hidden tunnels near the Mtkvari river. Vardzia Today is managed by a small group of pastors and can be visited by tourists. More read here
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