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eezyE4free t1_jacgs58 wrote

Reply to comment by Dream_Streamer_ in Sumela monastery, Trabzon, Turkiye by Drunkcodes

100% guess: natural walking path that ended below a natural cave. (You can kind of see the top of the cave?) stairs are carved into the rock face up to the cave. Foundations are flattened and the cave mouth is formed for temporary living. Then you can continue to harvest blocks from the cave and start your outer walls.

Water supply might be from the cave or a river/creek nearby. Food has to come up from the stairs or possible lowered from a terrace above?

Again 100% conjecture and by no means an easy feat.

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Dream_Streamer_ t1_jacxk85 wrote

So, in other words the builders were fearless badasses willing to build that shit no matter what.

Edit: Or slaves

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A_Soporific t1_jad5nyz wrote

The builders were monks who decided to live on the side of that mountain so they could focus on being monks. So I guess?

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