How did the craftsmen of ancient Egypt build the magnificent Kailash Monastery a thousand years ago?

One of the largest rock-cut ancient Indian temples in India, Kailash Monastery is located in the Ellora Caves in Maharastra.

It is said that this temple was dedicated by the king to Lord Shiva for the queen to be able to heal from her illness with the blessing of Lord Shiva. The name "Kailash" is intended to echo the place where Lord Shiva practiced on Mount Kailash in the Himalayas. One peak and one cave, heaven and earth, reflect each other in pairs, as if worshipping the all-encompassing divine power of Lord Shiva.

The whole picture of the temple, the age of the construction of the temple is unknown, but from the stone carvings in the temple, it can be traced back to the 8th century AD. The entire monastery is carved out of a single monolith and has the world's largest cantilevered rock dome structure, making it one of the most famous cave temples in India.

At the top of the Kailash Monastery, the monastery could only be built using the vertical excavation method: from the top down, about 400,000 tons of volcanic rock had to be removed, which required 24 hours a day and 200 days under modern construction methods to complete, not counting the exquisite stone carvings in the monastery.

A magnificent cave temple, how did craftsmen build such a grand temple with chisels with precision thousands of years ago? It's really puzzling. The mysterious monasteries are not only the ones introduced by the homepage, but also the land of India, one of the four ancient civilizations, there are many puzzling legends and unexplained anecdotes.

The world is so big that there are no surprises. India, known as the "incredible", has a lot of incredible, among which the ancient temple of Kailash Monastery, which is entangled in mysteries that cannot be solved to this day, is particularly famous.

Ancient Egyptian craftsmen spent a lot of time and effort to build it.

I don't understand exactly how the architectural details are, but they are very great.

This is the wisdom of the ancients, how to make the building, we don't know.

They were built little by little by doing it themselves.

It may be that they have a special manufacturing process, all of which are said to be like this.

They have their own special modus operandi, but this modus operandi has been lost.

They used the harder stone of the area, and their ingenuity led to the creation of this temple.

I don't know about it, no one has left any record of it, or it has been destroyed.

We don't know about this, but maybe the people at that time were also very intelligent.

Features of ancient Egyptian architecture.

1) Flat top. Due to the geographical location of ancient Egypt in an arid and rainless area, the buildings of ancient Egypt, from small houses to giant temples and palaces, except for a few similar flat roofs, are treated with flat roofs (except for the tombs of the pharaohs), and even the upper parts of the door frames and window frames are also straightened, forming a horizontal overall sense of unity with the surrounding desert.

In addition, due to the drought and lack of rainfall, the ancient Egyptian buildings did not use foundations.

2) Column type. The ancient Egyptians were the first people in the world to use stone pillars, which is also related to the structure of ancient Egyptian buildings as beams and columns. The earliest stone pillars appeared on the configuration buildings around the pyramid of Zhaosel, and the stone pillars at that time were pilasters, and later naturally there were independent stone pillars with circular cross-sections.

The use of stone columns in many large buildings in ancient Egypt was high in density and in large numbers. In order to beautify the stone pillars, in addition to carving a large number of hieroglyphs with special meaning and connotation on many pillars for decoration, the ancient Egyptians also carried out important artistic treatment in the column head part, and in the process of development, some regular, systematic and programmatic things were formed, which were called pillar types by later generations.

The appearance of the column style also marks the transition of the building from the low to the high.

There are many buildings in ancient Egypt that show the wealth of the Egyptian kingdom, and some of them have become legends!

The most famous building in ancient Egypt is the Egyptian pyramids, one of the eight wonders of the world, which are very ingeniously built.

It shows that ancient Egypt was relatively developed in mechanics, geometry, mathematics, architecture, etc., and scientific knowledge could support such a huge architectural system.

It shows that the system in ancient Egypt was quite centralized, and the pharaoh was able to gather a large number of labor to serve himself, and such a crowdfunding project could recruit a large number of people.

It shows that the agriculture of ancient Egypt was quite developed, and a large number of laborers could still feed the whole country, which required a good agricultural foundation.

It shows that ancient Egypt is also relatively advanced in terms of organization and management, and the reasonable allocation and arrangement of personnel for project work shows that Egypt has a good geographical environment, and these great buildings can be preserved after thousands of years of wind and rain.

It shows that human wisdom is infinite.

It shows that they are very intelligent, and as their offspring, we are even more.

Egypt's (pyramids) are a marvel of the world's ancient architecture and a symbol of Egypt.

A total of 96 pyramids have been found in Egypt, the largest being the three pyramids at Khufu, a suburb of Cairo. The tallest of these is the Pyramid of Khufu, which is 230 meters high and 230 meters long, and is made of 2.3 million stones with an average weight of 52,000 square meters.

Ramses II was a famous pharaoh of the ancient Egyptian Empire, the pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty, who was just 25 years old when he ascended the throne. He lived 99 years and reigned for 67 years. He had hundreds of wives and gave birth to 111 sons and 57 daughters, thus creating a 400-year-long family empire.

The Abu Simbel Temple is a huge temple he built for himself. This temple pioneered the carving of all the temple bodies into the cliff grottoes. This particular form of architecture had a profound impact on the subsequent conception of ancient Egyptian architecture.