Khmer Sbai carved in stone

 

 

In 2025, archaeologists at Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex uncovered the torso of a sandstone Buddha statue dating to the 12th–13th century. The discovery proved especially remarkable because the torso perfectly matched a head found at the same site in 1927 and preserved in Cambodia’s National Museum for nearly 100 years. Using modern technology, researchers confirmed that the two pieces once formed a single statue, allowing one of the finest surviving examples of Khmer art to be reunited after almost a century apart.