Kailasha temple, Ellora

Ellora and Daulatabad

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February 13th 2014
The caves at Ellora truly take your breath away. There are 35 of them (mercifully you don’t get to visit them all!) hewn out of a basalt cliff. There are Jain, Hindu and Buddhist temples and monasteries, each with different art forms, carved between 600 A.D and 1100 A.D. The most impressive of all is the Kailasha temple. It’s a series of temple buildings created to form the shape of a giant c ... read more

Asia » India » Maharashtra

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more