its walls covered in faded paintings. Beneath a dome, a timeless praying Buddha fronted a mound-like shrine, or stupa. The Ajanta Caves were abandoned in the 5th Century AD and weren’t ...

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.

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 ...

The Ajanta caves are home to paintings and sculptures that depict ... scenes depicting the Persian Embassy, Golden Geese, Pink Elephants and Bull Fights. 12. Though the caves are over 2,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 longer ...

The Ajanta Caves were ... to reach the caves – the original stone stairs had long gone – was architecture of a very high order and sculpture and paintings that took the breath away.

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 The famous Ajanta caves in ...