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This mysterious iron pillar in India has been exposed to the elements for over 1,600 years. So why hasn’t it ever rusted?
Yet, inside New Delhi’s UNESCO-listed Qutb Minar ... Scientists both in India and abroad began studying the iron pillar in Delhi in 1912 to try to figure out why it hadn’t corroded.
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Episode 4: Ages of Gold
They mastered the world's first large scale wrought iron technology—the Delhi iron pillar, and their courtly culture was the setting the world's first sex manual, the Kama Sutra. Meanwhile in ...
The Mirror3d
New Delhi stampede kills at least 15 cramming onto trains for world's largest religious festival
The crush took place in New Delhi, India's capital city, on Saturday evening around 8pm as pilgrims surged to get on trains to Praygraj, where the Hindu festival Kumbh Mela takes place every 12 years.