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The Kailasa Temple
How was an entire multi-storey temple carved top-down from a single rock, with no room to correct a mistake?
c. 757-783 CE (reign of Krishna I) · Ellora, Maharashtra, India
Chand Baori
With no surveying instruments beyond simple tools, how did builders lay out roughly 3,500 steps in a repeating, symmetrical geometric pattern descending 13 storeys to the water table without a single visible error, and how much of what stands today is the original 8th-9th century core versus later rebuilding?
c. 8th-9th century CE · Abhaneri, Dausa District, Rajasthan, India