An ancient Buddha statue measuring 1.7 meters in height was unearthed at an archaeological site in Yakjon-ri, South Pyongan Province, North Korea, according to Popular Mechanics.

Archaeologists discovered an ancient Buddha statue at a North Korean site, which is about a thousand years old. Researchers at the Korean Archaeology Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences ...

With its eyes closed in eternal prayer, a 1.7-meter-tall statue of a Buddha was unearthed by the Korean Archaeology Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences and the National Authority for the ...

Jerusalem Post Archaeology Archaeology Around the World 1,000-year-old Buddha statue discovered in North Korea An imposing statue of Amitābha Buddha has been unearthed at Yakjon-ri site, with ...

Andong, South Korea - At South Korea’s thousand-year-old Gounsa Temple, workers delicately swaddled a giant gilded Buddha statue with a fire-retardant blanket.

Previously it was just one of the many Buddha statues exhibited in the Buddhist art section on the third floor of the National Museum of Korea. About 250 centimeters tall, the Buddha sitting in ...