Archaeologists discovered a torso that unexpectedly matched an iconic Buddha head that had been unearthed ... Neth Simon told ...

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue ... d found so far were small pieces,” Simon said.

Furthermore, scans and analysis of a Buddha head originally found in 1927 and currently housed at the Angkor Conservation also proved to be from the same statue. The figure is notably adorned with ...

At Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia, a statue’s head was reunited with its body after nearly a century apart. Simone Dinoia via Unsplash The pieces of a disarticulated statue of Buddha have been ...

The torso find at a Cambodian temple matches a Buddha head discovered at the same location ... sculpture because all we’d found so far were small pieces,” Simon said. The statue’s torso ...