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 ...

Based on archeological findings, many of the prehistoric finger paintings found by archeologists on cave walls were actually drawn by the same demographic currently renowned for its finger painting ...

who intuited that the painting was an original Mantegna work in 2020. After visiting the work onsite in 2021, De Mieri observed that it had been heavily altered by several restorations in its ...

testing of new and alternative methods on small wall painting surfaces; continuous monitoring of the microclimate conditions in Ajanta Caves; enhancing documentation and archival material to evaluate ...