Konark Sun Temple
How did thirteenth-century Eastern Ganga builders raise a roughly 70-metre stone tower on the sandy Odisha coast — binding colossal slabs with forged wrought-iron beams and topping it with an enormous crowning stone — and why did that great sanctuary tower collapse while the porch beside it still stands?
c. 1250 CE (mid-13th century), Eastern Ganga dynasty (Narasimhadeva I) · Konark, Odisha, IndiaAdded July 2026