The Ajanta Caves are 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India ... Aurangabad Caves · Buddhist caves in India · Chaitya · Vihāra

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 ...

The 29 caves were excavated beginning around 200 BC, but they were abandoned in AD 650 in favour of Ellora. Five of the caves were temples and 24 were ...

Discovered by chance in 1819 by a British officer, the Ajanta Caves have since then been in the archaeological and historical limelight of the country.

Buddhist monks lived in the valley, from 2nd century BCE to about the 7th century CE. They used some of the caves to make temples. All the caves are located ...

30 окт. 2024 г. · The group of some 30 caves was excavated between the 1st century bce and the 7th century ce and consists of two types, caityas (“sanctuaries”) ...

Discovered by chance in 1819 by British soldiers on a hunt, the Ajanta Caves have become an icon of ancient Indian art, and have influenced subsequent artists ...

9 дек. 2015 г. · After centuries of neglect and desertion, the caves were accidentally discovered by John Smith, a member of a British hunting party in 1819 CE.

The Ajanta cave paintings belong from circa1st to 7th A.D. Out of 29 Ajanta caves only 16 were recorded to have contained painting in greater or lesser degree ...

12 мар. 2023 г. · The World Heritage Site of Ajanta, through its famous murals, tells the hidden history of an ancient world on the cusp of revolutionary ...