Within the city are the remains of the five rock cut rock-cut caves, examples of Salasthambha period architecture.
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The history of cave paintings in India range from drawings and paintings from prehistoric times, beginning around 30,000 BCE in the caves of Central India, typified by those at the Bhimbetka rock shelters to elaborate frescoes at sites such as the rock-cut artificial caves at Ajanta and Ellora, extending as late as the 8th - 10th century CE.
Another extensive site of rock-cut architecture is in Lalibela, a town in northern Ethiopia, where numerous churches, in three dimensions as at Ellora, were carved out of the rock.
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Ellora in India and Lalibela in Ethiopia provide the most spectacular and famous examples of such structures.
Karla Caves, a complex of ancient Buddhist Indian rock-cut architecture cave shrines