the origin of the Iron Pillar is also veiled in mystery. One widely circulated account traces it back to the Gupta Empire, particularly under the reign of Chandragupta II, also known as ...

Balasubramaniam along with other experts at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur cracked the mystery. They found that the pillar, primarily made of wrought iron, has a high phosphorus ...

Today, the enormous pillar is popularly known as the Finger of Og, alluding to the giant known as Og, an Amorite king of Bashan – the Iron Age name for the area of modern-day Jordan, Syria ...