INSV Kaundinya, an engineless Indian Navy vessel built using ancient stitched-ship techniques, has set sail from Gujarat to Oman. This maid...

Ankur Warikoo declared the Ajanta and Ellora Caves, particularly the 1,500-year-old monolithic Kailasa Temple, as the most astonishing monu...

The Indian Navy will soon induct a unique, traditionally-built ship. This ship is a recreation of a fifth-century vessel. The induction cer...

This year's Durga Puja in Kolkata will feature themes like 'Sati-daha' and Ajanta Cave's artworks. Some organizers will highlight social is...

In the new textbook, the river finds a prominent place in a chapter on the "Beginnings of Indian Civilisation", where the Harappan civilisa...

Buddhist texts such as the Nidanakatha, Buddhacarita and Mahavastu narrate moving accounts of the Buddha's return to Kapilavastu and his me...

There was indeed a Golden Age when India’s soft power created its greatest empire ever, without spilling any blood. Alas, historians of all...

What led to a land that once celebrated vysyas to look down upon them? The latter’s generosity solely towards monks could have contributed.

If you want to celebrate love in a free wild way, plan a road trip from Mumbai to Aurangabad. The ride time would be approx 6 hours.

When textile designer N Bhushavali gifted a khadi kurta with ancient Grantha inscriptions on it to senior archaeologist R Nagaswamy, he was...

ET-Travel suggests you take a casual day off at work to make the most of an extended weekend in coming months. Here's where you can head to.

"I saw these extraordinary but unfamiliar paintings. I couldn't recall having seen their photographs anywhere, in any books on Ajanta," he ...

We should not be seeing the Ajanta masterpieces in an unregulated 'chalta hai' manner if we want them to survive.

Under flashlight, Shibi Jataka shimmers into view like a bejewelled mosaic from Ajanta’s darkened cave.

You can skip little hassles associated with other forms of travel — bid goodbye to check-in woes, and the fatigue that comes along with lon...

A humble mausoleum and an open-to-the-sky grave are both telling reminders of the abstemious nature of the last of the Great Mughals, Auran...

Equipped with replicas of the ancient caves and multimedia guides, the visitor facilitation centre, being built at a cost of Rs 100 crore, ...