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 ...

The statue’s torso was crafted with a robe and sash ... Angkor Wat was constructed as a Hindu temple and dedicated to the god Vishnu, but it gradually shifted to become a Buddhist temple by the end of ...