Nazi Buddha statue came from space!

Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 16:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

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 the Siberia-Mongolia border.

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