Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

Some 40 km away, four caves of the Shengjinkou Grottoes in Turpan also opened to the public on Saturday, set to offer 300 visitor slots per day. The Shengjinkou site has 13 caves dating back to the ...

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 ...

[Photo/Xinhua] URUMQI -- Two Buddhist cave complexes along the ancient Silk Road in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region opened to the public for the first time on Saturday.

Keri: Archaeologist, Shrikant Ganvir, after studying the varied facets of the architecture of the monolithic laterite cave at Candola, has confirmed that it is a Buddhist cave. Shrikant Ganvir is ...

Carved into the cliffs above the Dachuan River, the Mogao Caves south-east of the Dunhuang oasis, Gansu Province, comprise the largest, most richly endowed, and longest used treasure house of Buddhist ...

The world-famous caves at Ajanta are a series of 30 Buddhist rock-cut caves, with exquisite paintings and murals ...

A senior Central Tourism department official said on Monday that world heritage Ajanta and Ellora Caves in Maharashtra could be promoted as monsoon tourism destinations given lush greenery that ...