TELESCOPE was Invented by GALILEO ??????

 
Historians made us believe that TELESCOPE was invented by GALILEO .. is it ... well in indian temple ,a scene depicting a soldier using an instrument like a telescope on a 12th Century Temple - Halebidu Temple Complex, Karnataka .

The amazing thing of those sculptures are that they depict the usage of some items which the modern man is said to have invented hundreds of years later., For example, two people are shown drinking coconut water through a straw pipe. People are shown using instruments like binoculars and telescope (Durbhin) and war artillery throwing missile like armoury. It is just the greatness of Indian culture that, we have known and used things long before the Western World even thought on similar lines.