AJANTA AND ELLORA CAVES - AURANGABAD , INDIA
AJANTA AND ELLORA CAVES - AURANGABAD, INDIA Ajantha & Ellora are 28 – 30 rock-cut cave monuments created during the first century BC and 5th century AD, containing paintings and sculptures considered to be masterpieces of both Buddhist religious art and universal pictorial art. The caves are located just outside the village of Ajantha / Ellora in Aurangabad district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Since 1983, the Ajanta & Ellora Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site . SOME FACTS ABOUT AJANTA AND ELLORA CAVES : 1 . People believed that some of the Buddhist monks had spent some time here at the time of monsoon as they are forbidden from traveling , in that period of time , they had made many beautiful creative paintings on the wall cave . 2 . It was solely in 1819, once Jon Smith, United Nations agency belonged to the twenty eighth Cavalry accidentally chanced upon the horse-shoe formed rock whereas looking a tiger in and round...