The photo is of Leshan Giant Buddha in Sichuan province, which became the largest Buddha in the world after the Taliban bombed the Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan in 2001. Naturally, this being a ...

Finding the general location is the first hurdle, as place names change over time and descriptions are separated from historical images ... settling in above the old tree line.

The two pieces of the 800-year-old sculpture were discovered roughly 160 feet away from each other at the Ta Prohm Temple in ...

A long-lost Buddha statue is being reassembled at Angkor after a recent torso discovery in an archaeological breakthrough.

David Price and Stuart MacFarlane were hard at work in Manchester, getting all the best photos from Old Trafford. Swipe through our gallery to find your favourite.

Scientists have discovered a rare fossil of a giant, venomous scorpion that lived 125 million years ago, offering new insights into ancient ecosystems. At 10 cm long, this scorpion was much bigger ...

Related: Object used in 12,000 year old curse unearthed in cave The fragments, which have been collectively named ATE7-1, were found at the Sima del Elefante dig site in Northern Spain in 2022.

Archaeologists have found a centuries-old body of Buddha statue during the second excavation at Ta Prohm Temple in northwest Cambodia's famed Angkor Archaeological Park, the APSARA National ...

The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been reunited nearly a century after the first piece was found at the Ta ...

A known treasure trove of Early Cretaceous fossils has turned up a never-before-seen species of scorpion that lived around 125 million years ago. The venomous scorpion was larger than many ancient ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head ...