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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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Cambodian Archaeologists Reunite a Sculpture Head and Torso After 100 Years
Archaeologists at Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia have discovered a 800-year-old Buddha torso that matches a statue head found in ...
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The Met May Have Millions in Stolen Art. It’s Not Waiting to Be Asked to Return It.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in late February, an increasingly familiar scene ... The work in question was a small ...
After 98 Years, Archaeologists Found the Missing Torso of an Ancient Buddha Statue
While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a ...
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Why is there a giant head sculpture in Toronto’s financial district?
A sculpture of a head that is three storeys tall and weighs more than 2.5 tonnes was unveiled earlier this fall in Toronto’s financial district. The $2-million public art installation, titled Dreaming ...
Ancient bronze griffin head returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
The artifact was on display at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia, the city that was the birthplace of the games that later ...
The torso of a Buddha statue has been found at Cambodia's Angkor temple complex
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 found nearly a century ago at th ...