Dating back to the Mauryan period, Barabar Caves are the oldest rock-cut caves in India. Located in Jehanabad district in Bihar, about 31 north of Gaya, some of the caves have inscriptions that ...

Scholars have for decades debated the source of the iron ore and sites of the foundries that made the implements that created the Mauryan-era Barabar Caves — India’s oldest surviving rock-cut caves — ...