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Fresco, Karanlik Church, Goreme Open Air Museum, Cappadocia, Turkey

First bath of Christ with midwives Mea and Salome, detail from the Nativity fresco, 1000-50 by Constantinople artists, on the north wall of the Karanlik Church or Dark Church, a rock-cut cross-in-square column church, 11th century, Byzantine, in Goreme Open Air Museum, Nevsehir province, Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Turkey. This area forms part of the Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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First bath of Christ with midwives Mea and Salome, detail from the Nativity fresco, 1000-50 by Constantinople artists, on the north wall of the Karanlik Church or Dark Church, a rock-cut cross-in-square column church, 11th century, Byzantine, in Goreme Open Air Museum, Nevsehir province, Cappadocia, Central Anatolia, Turkey. This area forms part of the Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen