Earlier cave dwellings had existed in the sandstone ... the interest in their Berber culture and heritage. Around 1,200 "troglodyte" homes have been preserved in the area, with some still ...

Indeed, there is nothing facetious about calling Lascaux the Sistine Chapel of prehistory; the famous caves, it has been inferred, were shrines rather than ordinary dwellings. What both have in ...

the limestone cliffs of Meschers-sur-Gironde shelter an astonishing troglodyte complex, where the dwellings are seemingly suspended between the land and the ocean. The cliffside caves, carved out ...

(Being a troglodyte, as locals cheerfully refer ... The town’s prehistoric cave dwellings had by then become “dark holes” riddled with filth and disease, where barnyard animals were kept ...

Some dwellings are little more than caves with a door on the front. Others have elaborate fronts, hiding the cave quarters behind. In the 1950s Matera was a slum city. Tens of thousands of people ...

As a result, the ancient troglodyte dwellings were redeveloped and new cave dwellings, known as Sassi, were built directly on the mountainside. For more than four centuries, the Sassi of Matera ...

Earlier cave dwellings had existed in the sandstone ... One Matmata cave hotel was used as a location in "Star Wars." Around 1,200 "troglodyte" homes have been preserved in the area, with some still ...