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A pair of newly-discovered 2,200 year-old copper Buddhas statues found in China are the oldest of their kind to be discovered in the country The small figurines were part of a trove of artifacts found among a group of ancient tombs from the Eastern Han Dynasty. One statue, known as Shakyamuni, shows Buddha standing on a platform while dressed in a long cloak and the other is for Five Tathāgatas, which highlights the five great Buddhas. These figurines are 200 years older previous Buddha statues found in China and were fashioned in Gandhara style. That is a style of Buddhist...

A recently discovered Buddha statue was smashed into pieces by local construction workers and a cleric on Saturday in Mardan. The relic was discovered while digging the foundation for a house. A video of the act, which has since gone viral on social media, showed the construction workers, along with a cleric, smashing the Buddha statue using a sledgehammer. According to international reports, the statue was destroyed allegedly on the order of a local cleric. "Your nikah would cease to exist and you will no more be a believer if the statue isn't disposed of," the cleric allegedly told the...

The officials of Pakistan's Federal Department of Archaeology and Museum are still clueless about the 81 price less and rare antiques including the priceless statues of Greek deities mysteriously stolen from Taxila Museum nine years ago. Not a single stolen item has been recovered and no official responsible for negligence has been punished... These antiques, which were discovered by Sir John Marshall during excavations carried out between 1813 and 1835 also include the statue of the Greek god Dionysus, the god of wine and a statue of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Being the only statues of Greek gods ever...