This painting was one of MANY inside one of the cave churches.
As you can see, thousands of years (and desecration)have taken a toll on the images.

This is a cave "nunnery". 7 floors where the nuns lived, and studied theology and worshiped. Unfortunately, it was closed because of interior structural safety hazards.

more cave homes

An Empty tomb! The stone "door" was much like the one I imagined covered Christ's tomb in the garden.

The only current inhabitants of these caves.