SEOUL, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A statue that made worldwide news as the "Iron Man" and was purportedly carved from a meteorite a thousand years ago is likely a modern fake, a researcher says. While ...

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After 14 years in hiding, when King Valagamba finally returned to reclaim his throne in Anuradhapura around 89 BCE, he paid ...

Modern Arniko. 27 June 2018. 0 ... But for the past one and a half years Manjul has been committed to a different project: building the world's largest sculpture of Buddha, in Japan. "Once upon a time ...

Nevine El-Aref, Wednesday 26 Apr 2023. A newly discovered marble statue of the Buddha at a temple in Berenike on the red sea shows a connection between Egypt and India during the Roman Empire.

Images commonly associated with Buddhism are of monks, meditation and saffron robes. But works on view in “Here/Not Here: Buddha Presence” at the Asian Art Museum wouldn’t be out of place at ...

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A 600-year old Buddha statue has been discovered in a reservoir in east China’s Jiangxi Province after water levels fell during renovation work.

Los Angeles police recovered a stolen 250-pound Japanese Buddha statue valued at $1.5 million over the weekend and arrested a suspect in the case, authorities said Wednesday. But the suspect is ...

Archaeologists in Thailand uncovered 33 ancient gold, silver, and bronze treasures beneath a 1,300-year-old reclining Buddha statue. They found rare repoussé metal sheets depicting Buddha and ...