Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Archaeologists Unearth the Torso of a Rare Buddha Statue—Nearly 100 Years After They Found Its Head
The two pieces of the 800-year-old sculpture were discovered roughly 160 feet away from each other at the Ta Prohm Temple in ...
An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in ...
The Met May Have Millions in Stolen Art. It’s Not Waiting to Be Asked to Return It.
The museum is taking the lead on re-evaluating its art and artifacts to determine where these works came from in the first ...
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Art: The Hand & the Head
Like all of Le Corbusier’s later masterpieces, the building is as free as sculpture. From every angle ... is as much the work of the hand as of the head. As Le Corbusier said in his own royal ...
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Cambodian Archaeologists Reunite a Sculpture Head and Torso After 100 Years
Archaeologists at Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia have discovered a 800-year-old Buddha torso that matches a statue head found in ...
Miami Herald on MSN11d
Rare ceramic dragon head — at least 1,400 years old — found at temple in China. See it
Dragons were a symbol of luck and protection from natural disasters during the Tang Dynasty, archaeologists said.