Ancient, Six-Foot Statue Found Near Angkor Wat
During a dig in the famed Angkor park, archaeologists were stunned to find the well-preserved artifact.
By Sarah Gibbens
PUBLISHED August 1, 2017
When archaeologists began excavating a site just north of Angkor Thom in Cambodia's famous Angkor Archaeological Park, they were expecting to find small artifacts like simple shards of pottery.
What they found instead was a nearly perfectly intact, centuries-old statue that measures just over six feet tall, weighs 440 pounds, and was found at a site that is 800 years old. The statue was found on July 30, on only the second day of a 12-day dig to study a canal connected to the remains of a 12th century hospital.
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