{"id":143589,"date":"2025-09-14T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143589\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:43:06","slug":"indias-top-7-ancient-engineering-marvels-that-define-architectural-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143589\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s top 7 ancient engineering marvels that define architectural genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also popular as the &#8220;Black Pagoda&#8221; because it was built using black granite, the Konark Sun Temple of Odisha has 24 wheels that combine art and science, symbolising time and movement. Each wheel denotes a month, with eight spokes marking hours and sub-spokes indicating half-hours. The shadow of the central arc helped tell time, while carvings reflected the daily activities of each hour. A massive five-ton magnet, once placed atop the dome, held the iron-rich stones together. Its magnetic field was so strong that it disrupted the compass-based navigation of passing ships, causing them to lose direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Also popular as the &#8220;Black Pagoda&#8221; because it was built using black granite, the Konark Sun Temple of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76922,76,354,355,49,48,356,76924,75,76923],"class_list":{"0":"post-143589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-ancient-engineering-marvels","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-engineering-marvels","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-india-architectural-genius"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}