The article "Bomb Shelters of Ancient India. Barabar Caves" showed the unusual nature of this artificial room in a granite massif. At that time, there were no detailed pictures on the network to understand even an approximate technology: how this cave was created. Thanks to a trip to India in 2017. Victoria Golubtsova can now at least somehow understand how they did it.
Let me remind you that the cave rooms are made in this granite massif:
The entrance to the grotto is in granite.
Rack-like teeth for lifting and lowering the latch door?
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Are the traces scratched from the valve movement or was it by design?
On the other side of the entrance.
The surface in the granite is perfectly polished.
Furrows on the floor. Obviously this was not done with a chisel on granite.
Inside there are walls with polished granite and the floor - as if it were not finished yet.
The grooves in the granite on the floor say it was done by machine.
The footprints on the ceiling are baffling how it is done.
Roughing and finishing surface. Have you used cutters and grinding machines? Or did you know how to soften granite? And then removed with a spatula? It is easier to imagine the latter than to imagine a mobile harvester capable of removing layers on granite with a cutter.
Intricate breed selection.
The feeling is that they were removing a softened layer of granite. But this is just a feeling. And how really?
In another shooting mode.
Was there something attached here?
But that is not all. In one of the rooms, traces of cuts were found:
Polished walls. For what?
On them, too, traces of cuts.
Poorly embossed local inscriptions.
Outside on the surface of the granite massif there are such rectangular grooves.
Like depressions from something walking on soft material.
The detailed shots clarify a few things, but they ask even more questions.
Author: sibved