Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
Archaeologists Unearth the Torso of a Rare Buddha Statue—Nearly 100 Years After They Found Its Head
For nearly a century, the head of a Buddha statue has been kept in the collections of the National Museum of Cambodia. Its ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN4d
The Art Institute of Chicago Is Returning a 12th-Century Buddha Sculpture to Nepal
The Art Institute of Chicago is returning a 12th-century sculpture to Nepal after learning that it had been stolen. Officials ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN7d
Missing torso of Buddha’s head discovered, solves century-old puzzle
Archaeologists discovered a torso that unexpectedly matched an iconic Buddha head that had been unearthed more than a century ...
After 98 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Torso of an Ancient Buddha Statue
While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a ...
The torso of a Buddha statue has been found at Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex
Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso ...
TheTravel on MSN9d
Archaeologists Celebrate Discovery of Missing 12th-Century Buddha Torso in Cambodia’s Ancient Angkor Temple
Hailed as a ‘significant find,’ the missing and long-searched-for Buddha torso has been dated between the 12th and 13th centuries ...