Chronicle of Georgia: Domed Church and Figures Relief

Domed Church and Figures Relief. In the reign of Queen Tamar the cave city of Vardzia grew into a monastery carved hundreds of rooms deep into a cliff above the Mtkvari. A relief with churches and buildings, carved into the bronze of a pillar. Georgian belongs to the Kartvelian family, unrelated to any of its neighbours — another reason the nation guards its written story so closely.