Incredible find! Ancient Buddha carved from Meteorite

german scientists have discovered an ancient Buddhist statue with extraterrestrial origin.

Depicting Vaisravana, the Buddhist god of wealth or war, the sculpture was carved from an ataxite, a rare class of iron meteorite with high contents of nickel.

"The statue was chiseled from an iron meteorite, from a fragment of the Chinga meteorite which crashed into the border areas between Mongolia and Siberia about 15.000 years ago," said Elmar Buchner of the University of Stuttgart.''


The detail carved into the meteorite is stunning.

Wonder when the carving was done??
http://news.discovery.com/history/meteorite-buddha-120926.html

Plug

looks like he was a Nazi. can't be that old.

T17cH

The swastica is an ancient symbol, it was just adopted by the nazis, supposedly the symbol is thought to date back to the bronze age.

pauldla

T17cH wrote: »

The swastica is an ancient symbol, it was just adopted by the nazis, supposedly the symbol is thought to date back to the bronze age.

Yes, and the Nazi swastika points in the other direction.

Amazing artifact.

littlemac1980

Looks more like Eddard Stark to me, but maybe I've just been watching too much Game of Thrones.