Kutub-Minar tower

India is a country of wonders and mysteries, rumors and legends. And many of them are associated with monuments of ancient architecture. One of the most unusual is the Kutub-Minar tower.

The Kutub-Minar tower is an ancient Indian brick building, which is still standing out from a distance on the background of low buildings. Local guides, conducting excursions for visiting tourists, often call it "the eighth wonder of the world". And on the scale of India it is not strange - the Kutub-Minar tower is the highest of all the ancient buildings of this country. Its height is 72,5 m, the diameter at the base is 14,5 m.

But this is not the main thing - Kutub-Minar is without foundation!

With close examination, the tower strikes the imagination with its elegance, fine work of architects.

Indian scholars believe that the construction of Kutub Minar was started in 1191 by Rajput Prince Chauhan. Only 179 years later the uppermost - the fifth floor of the tower with the crowning of its beautiful dome was completed. In 1803, during the earthquake, the dome fell to the ground, so it lies not far from the tower, being, as it were, "a visiting card" of Kutub Minar.

Despite the fact that much is known about the tower of Kutub-Minar, construction technologies, used mechanisms and devices remain a mystery.