MADURAI: Ancient art is not simply limited to engravings found on Egypt’s walls with tales of Pharaohs, or primitive ...

This is not the first time the ancient tribal art has been targeted. In 2012, vandals used electric generators and power saws to remove large slabs of the rock face containing numerous petroglyphs.

“In the late 1990s, as a researcher studying the rock art sites in the Nilgiris and the tribal communities’ links to them, Krishnan, along with a few others, were my guides who first took me t ...