The beauty of the stonework was just a hint to what awaited inside those stone ... monastery began to empty, the caves were abandoned, and Ajanta’s beautiful paintings fell into obscurity.

A painted mural scene from the 'Mahajanaka Jataka' in Ajanta's cave 1 ... the apsidal chaitya-grihas of caves 9 and 10, both of which feature some of the oldest paintings at the site.

16 and 17 at Ajanta has helped arrest seepage inside the caves that ... whatever was left of the paintings to a safer place." Ragade was posted at the Bagh Caves for conservation purpose from ...

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 ...

A senior official of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has expressed the need to control tourist footfall at the world-famous Ajanta caves in Maharashtra to preserve its paintings for a ...

A senior official of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has expressed the need to control tourist footfall at the world famous Ajanta caves ... increases humidity inside the caves, causing a ...

Now, some of these paintings housed inside the Ajanta Gallery of Telangana ... Russian and British help. The Ajanta Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, have paintings and sculptures that were ...

Some of the paintings have got damaged over a period of time, the official said. A senior official of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has expressed the need to control tourist footfall at ...

The project also aims to ensure that visitors spend less time inside the Ajanta caves as the moisture build-up due to the presence of too many tourists affects the ancient paintings, said a source.

The popular UNESCO world heritage site, Ajanta caves ... number of tourists increases humidity inside the caves, causing a negative impact on the paintings there," ASI's Aurangabad circle ...

A senior official of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has expressed the need to control tourist footfall at the world famous Ajanta caves in Maharashtra to preserve its paintings for a ...