Month: April 2019

  • Statues of Buddha’s disciples

    This photo provided by the National Museum of Korea on April 29, 2019, shows stone statues of Buddha’s disciples on display for a special exhibition. The same day, the museum opened the exhibition of 88 statues excavated from a temple site in Yeongweol, about 200 km southeast of Seoul. (Yonhap)

  • Archaeologists unearth ancient Funan burial site in Prey Veng town

      Archaeologists have unearthed six ancient graves in Tnort Tretvillage, in Prey Veng town’s Takor commune, concluding that the tombsdate from the Funan era between the first and fifth centuries AD. Funan is the name given to an Indianised Southeast Asian state centred on the Mekong Delta that existed in that period. Voeun Vuthy, director […]