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Archaeologists Unearth the Torso of a Rare Buddha Statue—Nearly 100 Years After They Found Its Head
For nearly a century, the head of a Buddha statue has been kept in the collections of the National Museum of Cambodia. Its ...
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Archaeologists Discovered a 1,700-Year-Old Statue of Hercules—Without His Head
The fragments all fit together, allowing the statue to piece together, minus that pesky head, of course. Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch ...
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 ...