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  Borobudur

  How did an 8th-century Javanese kingdom design, engineer, and raise a stone mandala of this scale and precision, and why was it later abandoned and buried for centuries?

  c. 780-830 CE (Sailendra dynasty) · Magelang, Central Java, IndonesiaAdded July 2026
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  The Kailasa Temple

  How was an entire multi-storey temple carved top-down from a single rock, with no room to correct a mistake?

  c. 757-783 CE (reign of Krishna I) · Ellora, Maharashtra, IndiaAdded July 2026