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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12534584" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/509/overrides/china-buddhas-found-head-earth_50929_600x450.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The head of a Buddha statue peeks above the dirt in Handan, China, where archaeologists have reportedly unearthed nearly 3,000 Buddha statues, which could be up to 1,500 years old.The   discovery is believed to be the largest of its kind since the founding   of the People's Republic of China in 1949, an archaeologist with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences told reporters in late March, according to the Associated Press.The   Buddha statues—most of which are made of white marble and limestone  and  many of which are broken—could date back to the Eastern Wei and   Northern Qi dynasties (A.D. 534 to 577), experts say.The   statues—discovered during a dig outside of Ye, the ancient capital of   the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties—may have been rounded up and   buried after the fall of the Northern Qi dynasty by later emperors in an   attempt to purge the country of Buddhism."It  may have been  that some of the ruins and broken sculptures from the  past were  gathered from old temple sites and buried in a pit," said Katherine Tsiang, director of the Center for the Art of East Asia at the University of Chicago.In some cases, the Buddhist statues may have been buried by the faithful themselves in times of danger."In   other sites, there are inscriptions that suggest that old damaged   sculptures were not just dumped in a pit, but respectfully buried in an   orderly way," Tsiang said.<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/pictures/120417-3000-ancient-buddhas-china-world-science/" target="_blank">natgeo</a></blockquote>

Verification: Haya warak paha keeyada? (haya wadi kireema paha)

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