Nepal rooms
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The sky caves of Mustang Chambers cut high in the cliffs of Upper Mustang, some of them tombs with gold masks, and a sky-burial reading that borrows a living Himalayan rite for bones two millennia old. -
Lumbini Under the Maya Devi temple, a line of postholes dated by radiocarbon to the 8th through 6th centuries BC, read as the earliest Buddhist tree shrine and as an older sacred fence that does not date the Buddha.