The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However ...

THE SMITHSONIAN DRAMA CONTINUES, with the Washington Postreporting yesterday that Kevin Young, the director of the National ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

The Art Institute of Chicago is returning a 12th-century sculpture to Nepal after learning that it had been stolen. Officials are working with the government of Nepal to voluntarily repatriate the ...

On 3 March, the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) announced the initiation of a voluntary repatriation to Nepal. The 12th-century artefact in question, a “significant sculpture” dubbed Buddha ...

Torso of Buddha statue unearthed at Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia. TA PROHM, CAMBODIA—Archaeologists discovered the torso of a ...

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 ...

While sifting through 29 statue fragments, they discovered something far larger than a fragment: a 3.75-foot-tall Buddha torso statue in the Bayon art style, dated to the 12 th or 13 th centuries and ...

Archaeologists said a Buddha head was found during the years ... The statue has jewelry and has its hand placed in a odd way for an art piece of this time period, researchers said.