Case file · Folklore / legend
Ellora's Kailasa temple: 'impossible' carving
The Kailasa temple at Ellora, cut downward from a single basalt cliff around 760 under the Rashtrakuta king Krishna I, is claimed online to be beyond human skill or made with lost technology.
760 CE · 20.03, 75.18 · status: claim
The sceptical view
Inscriptions and chisel marks show human work; archaeologists estimate about 200,000 tonnes of rock were removed over decades by skilled crews.