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Agrasen ki Baoli, Delhi, India.
The Rani ki Vav ("Queen’s Stepwell") was buried under sand and mud for nearly a millennium following flooding that occurred as the structure neared completion. A long process of excavation and restoration of the stepwell was completed in the 1980s.1