Statue depicts prince before he was Buddha

Thursday, June 7, 2012 - 11:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

In the ruins of a Buddhist monastery in Afghanistan, archaeologists have uncovered a stone statue that seems to depict the prince Siddhartha before he founded Buddhism.

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