Ancient coastal caves offer a glimpse into the past, revealing secrets of early human life and natural history ...

Tourists outside the entrance to Ajanta's cave 19. A slow reveal To visit Ajanta is to enjoy the art of the slow reveal. If you are coming from Aurangabad, the road first descends from a plateau ...

The first Buddhist cave monuments at Ajanta date from the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. During the Gupta period (5th and 6th centuries A.D.), many more richly decorated caves were added to the original ...

Art historian Saili Palande-Datar linked this painting to the Purna Avadana, a narrative from Buddhist literature. She said several Ajanta caves feature paintings of ships. “We can connect this ...

This was partly because these two caves contain the most severely damaged of all the Ajanta frescoes: “The paintings were so fragile that in some places there was a great fear even to touch them ...

A painting in Ajanta cave 17. Credit: Wikimedia Commons [Public Domain]. As for Herringham’s work itself, her engagement with the past suggests a sympathy with contemporary British art’s ...

In response to recent honey-bee attacks on tourists, the forest department is relocating 13 hives from the Ajanta Caves in ...

has expressed the need to control tourist footfall at the world famous Ajanta caves in Maharashtra to preserve its paintings for a longer time. The popular UNESCO world heritage site, comprising ...