The period of Ajanta as a thriving religious and artistic center appears to coincide with the reign of Harishena, who died in 478. By the seventh century, the monastery began to empty, the caves ...

An ASI official has said that the footfall at the popular UNESCO world heritage site, Ajanta caves, needs to be abated amid growing concerns about the paintings inside.

The construction of an additional contour drain atop cave nos. 16 and 17 at Ajanta has helped arrest seepage inside the caves that had been causing concern for many years. However, the unseasonal ...

Need To Control Footfall At Ajanta Caves: Archeological Body's Official "The presence of a large number of tourists increases humidity inside the caves, causing a negative impact on the paintings ...

The Ajanta Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have paintings and sculptures that were created during the Satavahana rule over Central and Southern India between 200-100 BCE and were discovered ...

It’s these later caves from the reign of Harisena—1-8, 11 and 14-31 (these clusters hold the bulk of the surviving painted murals as well) that tell the most compelling story of Ajanta.

The popular UNESCO world heritage site, comprising 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments, is located about 100 km from Aurangabad; the caves have paintings depicting the life of Gautam Buddha.

Ajanta Caves includes all the elements necessary to express its Outstanding Universal Value, including the ensemble of these caves in its natural setting, sculptures, paintings, and epigraphs. It is ...

The paintings in the fifth-century Ajanta caves illustrate the Jataka tales. They are in the dark area of caves where human eyes take time to get acclimatised.

Need to regulate tourists at Ajanta caves to preserve its paintings: ASI The presence of a large number of people increases humidity inside the caves, causing a negative impact on the paintings there ...

The famous Ajanta caves in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad will soon have QR codes at the entrance to provide information to visitors about the paintings there, a senior Archaeological Survey of India ...

The popular UNESCO world heritage site, Ajanta caves, comprising 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments, is located about 100 km from the Aurangabad district headquarters Recent Searches Trending News ...