The 12th-century sculpture the museum returned to Nepal is called “Buddha Sheltered by the Serpent King Muchalinda” and is about 17.5 inches tall. The Art Institute said it was stolen from the ...

a 3.75-foot-tall Buddha torso statue in the Bayon art style, dated to the 12 th or 13 th centuries and curiously missing its head. You can see where this is going, right? If it seems too good to ...

Archaeologists working at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex have unearthed the torso of a statue of Buddha that is believed to be connected to a head that was found onsite nearly a century ago.