Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Massive Angkor-era Buddha statue unearthed near Ta Prom temple on 21 October 2011

Dear Readers,

We just received the following "good news" from a team of archeologists in Cambodian led by Mr. An Sopheap who unearthed a massive monolith Buddha statue in Ta Prom temple. The following photos showed the tree roots where the statue was recovered last Friday (21 October 2011). The Angkor-era statue could possibly be slightly larger than the one in Bayon temple.

In his closing message, Mr. An Sopheap wrote: "My team are planning to extend the excavation trench after rainning season and try to find it original location, it can be in the middle of dancing Hall????".

Congratulations to Lok An Sopheap and team for this important discovery!

Thank you,

KI-Media team



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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you KI Media for informing us on this find.

I suspect hundreds more of similar artifacts still lie buried somewhere waiting to be unearthed.

With every such discovery, the Great Khmer civilisation of the past is brought back to life!


Kouprey

Anonymous said...

7:26PM! thousands will find if in proprtion of the temples exist and find!

But won't brought back a death civilization to life!

keep the finds for tourist attraction and don't lost it!

Anonymous said...

Please keep up the good work!