The Qutab Minar was built 400 A.D. and stands over 20 ft high. What was the next piece of IRON built that high?
The Qutab Minar was built 400 A.D. and stands over 20 ft high. What was the next piece of IRON built that high?
Okay here’s some more info. The next piece that large was built at least 1000 years later. But what was the next piece that big? And where is it? I really need to know no joke.
I don’t know what you re talking about.
The Qutub Minar is 72 meters / 237.8 ft high.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Delhi_Qutab.jpg
Qutub Minar (Urdu: قطب منار), a tower in Delhi, India, is the world’s tallest brick minaret.Construction commenced in 1193 under the orders of India’s first Muslim ruler Qutb-ud-din Aibak and the topmost storey of the minaret was completed in 1386 by Firuz Shah Tughluq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutub_Minar
Is this what you were referring to?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Pillar
The Iron Pillar of Delhi, located in the Qutb complex—almost seven meters or 22 feet (6.7 m) high and weighing more than six tons—was allegedly erected at the time of Chandragupta II Vikramaditya (375–413), though other authorities give dates as early as 912 BCE.
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_delhiironpillar.jpg
Or did you get the dates wrong? The Iron Pillar is said to have been constructed around 400 AD, and the Qutb Minar, a brick minaret was completed nearly a 1000 years later.
EDIT:
There was a massive iron pillar in Madhya Pradesh thats said to have been constructed around 1000 AD, during the reign of King Bhoja(1010-1053 AD) at Dhar, then the capital of the ancient kingdom of Malwa. But it no longer stands, ravaged by various events in history. Consequently, it no longer stands at its original site of erection, but now lies as three fragmented pieces on concrete supports outside the “Lat Masjid” at Dhar.
http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FMAM%2FMAM13_S02%2FS1431927607073102a.pdf&code=2d613e1560731a551e3a1a9fe14560df
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~bala/journalpaper/journal/journalpaper_34.pdf
Or even the iron beams at the Konark Temple built during the reign of King Narasimhadeva I (AD 1236-1264) in Orissa?
http://www.bharathgyan.com/konark.htm