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 decorated caves were added to the original ...

When Sergio García-Dils de la Vega kissed his girlfriend, Pilar Orche, goodbye at the entrance to Krubera Cave, he promised to return the next day. But after teammate Bernard Tourte bruised his ...

A reproduction of Disciples in Mourning from Cave 33 of the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves in Turpan city, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, is on display. [Photo provided to China Daily] ...

This story appears in the February 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. She is lying in a cave, dying. Legs and arms but knobby sticks, Lidia Maiyu is curled up close to the campfire.

14,700 years ago, in a cave in Somerset, our ancestors were eating other people. Museum research reveals these Ice Age Britons weren't eating human flesh out of necessity but as part of a ritual. 'The ...

Their ordeal captured the world's attention, as divers successfully brought them out of the flooded Tham Luang cave complex. But before they were found, the group had to survive for nine days in ...

A tourism brochure for New Zealand's Waitomo Caves from 1928 What’s waiting for us within the mysterious depths of a cave? It’s been the stuff of legend and campfire stories for centuries.

Scientists have for the first time discovered a cave on the Moon. At least 100m deep, it could be an ideal place for humans to build a permanent base, they say. It is just one in probably hundreds ...

If you can't find what you're looking for at Chumphon Airport, there could be more car hire options in Chumphon and sometimes, they're cheaper. You just have to remember that the added cost of a ...

The Mogao Grottoes, also known as the Thousand Buddha Caves, date back over a thousand years and are an embodiment of ...