In Shelburne Museum, Hour 1, Lark E. Mason appraises a Chinese late Ming Dynasty Buddha bronze.

An archaeologist displays the standing statuette of the Gautama Buddha discovered in Xianyang, Shaanxi province. [Photo/Xinhua] What are thought to be China's oldest known bronze Buddha images ...

A 500-year-old bronze statue of the Amitayus Buddha and rhinoceros-horn cups sold for record prices at a Hong Kong auction that saw Europeans and Americans return to rival Chinese bidding on the ...

Among its many treasures, readers will find a Japanese clay jar from 3000-2000 BCE, a Chinese bronze Buddha dating to 338, a seventeenth-century Indian painting from the Shahnama (Book of Kings), a ...

Now scientists in Jingchuan County, China, say they've found a box with thousands of pieces of his "sarira" (cremated remains, including teeth and bones) with a message inscribed from a pair of ...

HONG KONG — A set of 1,400-year-old Buddha statues in southwest China was damaged by villagers who painted them with bright colors to “redeem a wish to the god,” officials said.