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« on: March 20, 2014, 05:32:18 AM »
Ajanta Caves: Your history lesson for today.
Over hundreds of years thirty one monuments hewn from the rockface!
Two thousand two hundred years ago work began in Maharashtra, India.
Then, some speculate around the year 1000 AD, they fell in to disuse.
Dense jungle grew around, hiding the caves away from human eyes.
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The Ajanta caves lay undisturbed for hundreds of years. Then, in April 1819, during the time of the British, Raj, an officer with the unassuming name of John Smith, rediscovered a doorway to one of the temples.
He had been hunting tigers – something of which many would disapprove today.

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One can only imagine what went through Smith's head when he made his find.
Such a rediscovery did not remain secret for very long.
Soon, European and Indian tourists were thronging to the site – after extensive tidying up.
After all, the caves had been home to bat, birds and larger animals for hundreds of years.
The Ajanta Caves had been returned to the world of the living.



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