Digging Crew Surprised to Find ‘Treasure Trove’ Beneath 1,300-Year-Old Reclining Buddha Statue in Thailand The discovery of ...

More than 1,000 years ago, below the statue of the reclining Buddha in an ancient temple, someone stashed their hoard. Gold, silver and bronze items were hidden at the Thailand site for centuries — ...

Seoul, May 10 (Jiji Press)--A Buddha statue stolen from a temple on Tsushima, an island in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki, in 2012 was handed over to the Japanese side at a temple ...

Below a statue ... the Buddha, officials said. It’s rectangular, thick and relatively intact. It shows a Buddha with a halo, curls like snail shells, elongated ears and a body sitting and ...