Amazing! We spent the day exploring the UNESCO Ellora caves today. Each of the 32 man made caves were cut into a sheer granite rock face. Everything you see is the same solid piece of cliff side and mountain. All the pillars, carvings, statues, roofs, floors are one solid piece of connected mountain. No cement. No joins. They started on the outside, burrowed in and then embellished the hole. 32 of them. Seeing is believing. I haven’t said wow so many times in years! #elloracaves #ellora #bargeni

16K views · 780 reactions | The Ellora Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Maharashtra, India, are a remarkable complex of rock-cut temples and monasteries carved directly into the basalt cliffs... #theancientplacetobe | We Love Ancient Aliens | Facebook

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Carved into the basalt cliffs of Maharashtra, the Ellora Caves are not just monuments,they are conversations etched in stone. Between the 6th and 10th centuries, artisans chiselled 34 rock-cut caves from a single escarpment, dedicated to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism. At a time when faith often divided, Ellora stood for coexistence, three traditions sharing one landscape, one horizon. The most astonishing of them all is Cave 16, the Kailasa Temple. Unlike structures built stone by stone, it wa