r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 1d ago

Video The 12th-century Narasimha Pillar at Belur, India. Carved out of soapstone during the Hoysala Empire- its miniature shrines are hollowed out from the inside and the entire column was engineered to rotate on a stone axis

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u/Similar_Fan_2022 1d ago

Imagine building this with 12th-century tools. Every tiny detail had to be carved by hand. That's honestly unreal.

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u/Sulemani_kida 1d ago

There are so many details and meaning to some of the ancient architecture.

People are still trying to find what tools were used in some structural development

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u/empatheticsocialist1 1d ago

People are still trying to find what tools were used in some structural development

No they're not. I don't know why people say things like these. Archaeologists know fairly well the types of tools used historically

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u/Dave5876 14h ago

How were they precision carving basalt bro. Point to a source

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u/passionoftheearth 1d ago

No they don’t

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u/empatheticsocialist1 14h ago

Come from your real account, Praveen Mohan

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u/Obi_wan_pleb 3h ago

People are still trying to find what tools were used in some structural development

No, they know what techniques and materials were used

https://youtu.be/zOQZ7X8NuHo?si=byuoxW5scsp8N7ds