AncientPages.com - Several mysterious scrolls and artifacts have been found inside a 700-year-old Buddha statue, in the ancient Japanese capital of Nara.
It’s an astonishing discovery and researchers report there is no sign that the items have ever been taken out.
Credit: NHK
The statuette is only 30 inches tall and the figurine is stuffed with about 180 artifacts!
According to Japan's national public broadcasting organization NHK, “it was previously known that the seated Monju Bosatsu statue at Hokkeji temple contained something inside, but no one knew what was actually there.
Officials from the Nara National Museum conducted a scientific probe of the 73-centimeter-high piece using a CT scanner. They discovered a hollow space stretching from top to bottom.
They ascertained there were about 30 items in the head, including scrolls and what appear to be relics, with around 150 more artifacts in the torso section.”
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“In terms of the artifacts inside, the statue is really special,” Shigeki Iwata, special research chair at the Nara National Museum, told NHK.
“The discovery is historically valuable and has increased its value as a cultural asset."
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