Warangal is an ancient fortified settlement in India, founded around a lake and a rock that seems to grow out of it.
The central part of the complex is a lake and a mountain. Behind it is the "gate".
Everything is surrounded by a wall with 4 entrances around the perimeter. The total area is about 4 sq. km.
The lake is 200 meters in diameter. Previously, the water rose above the current level, as evidenced by the high bank on which today the farm fields. When you go around the lake, you see how basalt and granite fragments slide down from the sandy slopes - once there were many more buildings here. It is interesting that on one site there are brackets that were used to hold the blocks - and these are iron brackets!
The rock is located in the northern part of the lake and its top is flat, most likely knocked down. The site is about 40 meters, there is a temple and something like the remains of a signal tower, with 8 teeth. North of the cliff, behind a 100-meter strip of modern residential buildings and a road, begins what is today called "Warangal".
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This is a 100 by 100 meters area, surrounded on four sides by stone gates and the fifth in the form of pillars, with stone structures placed on them.
Everything in Warangal amazes: the quality of the processing of hard rocks is perfect. Smooth, like a laser, measured and cut-off blocks. Figured complex and symmetrically repeating without errors, as from one copy. Stone carving, including the internal contours. Polishing of small details of the carving, including sharp corners. The complexity of the ornaments around the circle - no element is less and no more than another, which requires preparation and processing at a high-precision level. Well, the blocks, of course, are adjusted one under the other at the time of the wall construction, the so-called polygonal masonry.
So our ideas about antiquity can already be safely said "bye-bye!" Something I'm more and more inclined to think that humanity is simply hooked on all sorts of crap - either wars, or the theory of evolution, or the era of consumption … Anything you want, so long as you don't take care of yourself and chase illusions.