After 500 years, sheer chance reunites head and body of Hindu statue in Paris
19 May 2006 (The Independent) -
After 500 years, sheer chance reunites head and body of Hindu statue in Paris
A wife of the Hindu god Shiva, decapitated in Cambodia in the 15th century, finally has her head back, after it was discovered 500 years later on the other side of the world.
A Paris museum dedicated to Asia, the Musée Guimet, is celebrating the implausible chain of events that reunited a divided masterpiece of ninth-century Cambodian art.
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