Mystery of temples 'timeless' in India: There is a value of up to 100 billion USD!

These are temples built hundreds or even thousands of years ago but require modern construction techniques to be able to do.

Built thousands of years ago, however, you will have to marvel at the architecture beyond the era of the ancient temples below. The millimeter arrangement of huge blocks of stone, with masses of more than 80 tons, is still a mystery in building them.

Brihadeeswarar temple - skyscraper challenges scientists

The temple named Brihadeeswarar is an extremely important temple of Indians, built by King Rja Rja Chola I in 1010, with an altitude of up to 66 m (one of the highest temples in the world). .

Located on an area of ​​320,000 km2 in Thanjavur, India, it is also the first granite temple in the world to be completed, but its mystery is still challenging modern scientists. In which the biggest puzzle that still has no solution is:

How humans at that time with the scientific level of the 11th century could move blocks of stone weighing more than 80 tons (like the Kumbam block at the top) from a distance of 60 km and placing them perfectly accurately to the top of the temple?

An estimated 130,000 tons of granite has been used to build the entire temple. In addition, the mystery of how sculptors how to carve the statue of the Nandi cow statue weighing 20 tons on a single stone has not yet been solved.

Konark Sun Temple - Temple of the Sun.

Konark Sun Temple.(Photo: Ancient Origins)

This temple of the sun god was built in the traditional style of Kalinga architecture in the 13th century at the mouth of Chandrabhaga, Konark, Orissa, East India by King Narasimhadeva I of the East Ganga dynasty around 1250.

Its entire structure simulates a huge horse carriage of the Surya Sun God with 12 pairs of giant 3m Khondalite stone wheels and sophisticated, elaborate carvings pulled by 7 pairs of stone horses. The temple gate faces the East.

In addition to images of gods, goddesses, warriors, animals, birds or dancers and temples, there are also sensitive images of a pair of tantrics and men and women, expressing harmony between love. sex and religion.

Currently, the temple remains only a part of the ruins due to being devastated by time, the main structure for initial worship is even as high as 70 m.

In it, scientists believe that at the top of the temple there is a 52-ton magnets that can make the walls hang in the air but collapsed in the 17th century.

In 1984, it was recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as well as in Times magazine's Seven Wonders List.

- India's richest temple and scary curse

Padmanabhaswamy temple.(Photo: Amar Ujala).

Located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state, built in the 16th century, it was once owned by the ancient King Marthanda Varma Travancore before transferring ownership to the Kerala state government in 1949.

Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple is a place to worship the Hindu god Vishnu, if you look from a distance you can be overwhelmed by its unique architecture, if there is sun shining, the whole temple will light up like a giant gold block.

In fact, it is also the temple that holds the richest record in the world because it contains lots of gold, ki and gems. But it always attracts treasure thieves here. The architecture of the temple is also extremely unique with 6 tunnels marked from A to F.

Wanting to go into "treasure", the thief will have to go through these six doors with solid stone statues guarded but to open them is not an easy thing, even leading to disasters for the intruder because of the ancient curse.

In 2001, archaeologists excavated the tunnel A and only the treasure here made anyone overwhelmed:

Gold necklace up to 6 m long, weighs about 2.5 kg, thousands of precious stone jewelry, enchanted statues of 1,000 diamonds, emeralds, crowns . The Asia Times estimates the value in the temple maybe more than 100 billion USD if excavated all the tunnels.

Currently, the authorities have to curse the temple area with a dense police force to preserve order and security for the attraction of the treasure that this temple hides.

- The temple is carved from a single stone block!

Kailasa temple.(Photo: Marc Shandro).

Kailasa Temple at Ellora Cave in Mount Kailash, Maharashtra (India), the entire temple is only built from a single (monolithic) stone with a depth of 50m, width of 33m and height of 30m. The temple is also one of the largest monolithic structures in the world.

The temple was built thousands of years ago (10th century AD) by King Krishna I, during the Rashtrakuta dynasty (6th to 10th centuries), showing that the level of civilization flourished at that time. Now, surprisingly.

It is the mystery of building a temple with craft tools at the time that was the biggest puzzle for scientists. Don't know how people built the temple according to Dravidian architecture (square top architecture with meticulously carved details)?

Especially when people at that time separated stones from the rock 30 m to make pillars, it is estimated that up to 400,000 tons of stone were used to build during 20 years. The Kailasa temple was built to worship Hindu god Shiva - the supreme deity symbolizing rebirth and destruction.