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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 ...
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Archaeologists Unearth the Torso of a Rare Buddha Statue—Nearly 100 Years After They Found Its Head
The two pieces of the 800-year-old sculpture were discovered roughly 160 feet away from each other at the Ta Prohm Temple in ...
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Women's Studies: How 19 female medical students brought from Afghanistan became a symbol of hope
It has been seven months since the medical student arrived in Scotland to pursue the education she had been cut off from in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Enrolled at the University of Glasgow, she ...
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The torso of a Buddha statue has been found at Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex
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 ...
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Stone head of Buddha statue found in Cambodia in 1927. Now, rest of body discovered
Simone Dinoia via Unsplash The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been reunited nearly a century after the first piece was found at the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia, archaeology ...
Charlotte Observer15d
Stone head of Buddha statue found in Cambodia in 1927. Now, rest of body discovered
The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been reunited nearly a century after the first piece was found at the Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia, archaeology officials announced ...