The Laughing Buddha, a popular Feng Shui symbol, is believed to bring prosperity and well-being. Different poses hold unique ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Bronze figurine of Sakyamuni Buddha, ...

Kastalia Medrano is a Manhattan-based journalist whose writing has appeared at outlets like Pacific Standard, VICE, National Geographic, the Paris Review Daily, and Real Life magazine. Her RTs = ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Fabio Colombo picked up a clay-colored fragment, one of hundreds arrayed on tables in a room in Afghanistan’s National Museum. He applied several adhesive drops and pressed it ...

Archaeologists have made the shocking discovery of a marble Buddha statue in a temple in the ancient Egyptian port city of Berenike, shedding new light on the trade links between India and ancient ...

An earlier version of this article incorrectly described Fabio Colombo as the head conservator at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute. Colombo is head conservator of the Institute's Kabul ...

Say farewell to Phnom Penh International Airport and welcome Cambodia’s brand-new Techo International Airport, which officially opened in September 2025. The $2 billion mega-project is a collaboration ...

It sounds like a mash-up of Indiana Jones' plots, but German researchers say a heavy Buddha statue brought to Europe by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite that likely fell 10,000 years ago along ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban fighters arrived with hammers and hatred. What they left behind is laid out on tables at the National Museum of Afghanistan, 18 years later: shattered pieces of ...