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Archaeologists have recently discovered about a dozen sandstone statues in Angkor ... a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992. The majestic Hindu-Buddhist temple complex in the country's north ...
Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...
San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is set to return four bronze statues from Thailand’s looted Prakhon Chai hoard.
The largest Hindu temple in the nation celebrated ... It is replete with 10,000 statues and 151 carvings of ancient Indian musical instruments. Mayor Adams and world leaders such as Indian Prime ...
In the center of the ancient city of Madurai lies one of the ... Dedicated to the goddess Meenakshi—the incarnation of the Hindu goddess Parvati—this temple is one of the few religious ...
Many of the 10,000 intricately carved marble statues inside the Akshardham, the main mandir, depict musicians playing instruments, stories from ancient texts and individuals from Hindu history.
Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York ...
In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.