With their heads removed and bodies broken into pieces to be sold around the world, Buddhist statues taken from sacred ...
Between 1924 and 1925, thieves vandalized and looted the caves, bribing corrupt monks to break over 240 statues into fragments for sale ... and collectors was the Buddha head, but the statue's ...
The University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) is seeking to deaccession a 9th-century stone Buddha to allow for its ...
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The museum tells the story with objects from its own collection as well as those borrowed from 29 international lenders, many ...
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It starts with a small green statue of the Buddha produced in Pakistan in the ... manuscripts that included the written account of the sale of Na’im, a Nubian woman slave, unusual for having ...
In an episode of the BBC's Antiques Road Trip, hosts Irita Marriott and Raj Bisram were shocked by the underwhelming auction ...