Smithsonian Magazine on MSN7d
What Archaeologists Are Uncovering About the Buddha in His Legendary Nepali Hometown
Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...
Archaeology14d
Buddha Statue Reunited with Head Found in 1927
Torso of Buddha statue unearthed at Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia. TA PROHM, CAMBODIA—Archaeologists discovered the torso of a ...
Smithsonian Magazine13d
Archaeologists Unearth the Torso of a Rare Buddha Statue—Nearly 100 Years After They Found Its Head
APSARA National Authority For nearly a century, the head of a Buddha statue has been kept in the collections of the National Museum of Cambodia. Its body, however, was missing. But last month ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN18d
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 ago. Spanning 402 acres, Angkor is recognized as one of the most ...
U.S. News & World Report6d
Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha)
making it the largest reclining Buddha statue in Thailand. The complex also houses the most Buddha's in all of Thailand. Along with the famous reclining Buddha, Wat Pho features a whopping 394 ...