One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Unprecedented wildfires ripping through South Korea’s southern regions have destroyed large parts of an ancient Buddhist temple, ruining two of its three state-designated ...

Wind-driven wildfires in South Korea's southern regions have killed at least 24 people, forced thousands to evacuate, and ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

Inhabitants of a UNESCO-listed village were ordered to evacuate while a historic Buddhist temple was burned to the ground as ...

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In this photo taken between 2020- 2021 and released by Fauna & Flora, elephants roam at Prey Lang Wildlife ...

According to archaeologists, the head of the same statue was dug up in 1927 and is now in Cambodia's National museum in the capital Phnom Penh. The two parts may be reattached for display. View on eur ...

Guatemalan authorities say Samayoa Recinos leads the organized crime group Los Huistas. Buddha-statue part found in Cambodia PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an ...

Hailed as a ‘significant find,’ the missing and long-searched-for Buddha torso has been dated between the 12th and 13th centuries ...