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Kailash Temple - Ellora

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailash_Temple :

 

The Kailash Temple is notable for its vertical excavation -- carvers started at the top of the original rock, and excavated downward, exhuming the temple out of the existing rock.

 

It is estimated that about 200,000 tons of rocks was scooped out over hundreds of years to construct this monolithic structure.

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