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Ellora Caves

Rock-CutAsiaIndiac. 600 CEIndian rock-cut / Hindu-Buddhist-Jain

34 caves spanning Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain traditions. The Kailasa temple (Cave 16) is the largest monolithic rock excavation in the world, carved top-down from a single basalt cliff.

20.0258°, 75.1792°

Look Closer — this site carries open questions: stone harder than steel; stones heavier than the period's tools could lift; stones fitted without mortar, almost no gap.
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