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He would not deign to examine even the masterpieces of Elephanta, or the mysterious hypogea, concealed south-east from the docks, or those fine remains of Buddhist architecture, the Kanherian grottoes of the island of Salcette.

PEKyN (CyHAN)- Tourists to central China's Longmen Grottoes during the National Day holiday will be able to take home souvenirs of the site's famed Buddhist art in a new coloring book.

New Delhi, May 8 (ANI): In an attempt to protect the 1,5000-year-old Yungang Buddhist Grottoes in northern Shanxi Province from withering, Chinese archaeologists and engineers have started restoration work.

Peter's Basilica with the underlying grottoes where pagan tombs were reopened by the Vatican - part of the largest and most luxurious of the pagan tombs in the necropolis under St.

Liverpool has played host to some of the most marvellous grottoes in the north west over the years from Blacklers, to Lewis's, to TJ's and, more recently, of Clayton Square.

And some shopping centres have installed spy cameras in grottoes to protect Father Christmas from allegations of abuse.

'Garden-making' accompanied the building boom in country houses in the first few decades of the seventeenth century, and a fair number of patrons commissioned designers to create renaissance-style gardens that included grottoes. As we will see, however, the siting of the Woburn grotto in the actual living area of the house appears to have been distinctly unusual for the period.