Phnom Penh (Cambodia), September 30 - ANI: The legs of a 12th century sandstone carving of the Buddhist deity Hevajra, which were missing, have been recovered from a historic site in Siem Reap province in Cambodia.
The bust of the statue is on display in New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art.
According to a report in the Phnom Penh Post, the missing piece of the ancient sculpture was spotted by a British archaeologist this summer.
He had been trying to find the spot where French archaeologists first discovered the sculptures remains in 1925 near Angkor Thom, the walled city of King Jayavarman VII (1125-1215).Instead, to his amazement, he found the statues legs just lying there on the jungle floor.
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