CT Scan Reveals That Statue of the Buddha Is Actually a Mummy

(Photo: M. Elsevier Stokmans)

It looks like a statue of the Buddha. It is, in a way. But inside, there are the mummified remains of a human body . Tradition holds that they are a Buddhist monk who lived around the year 1100 AD. Last year, the statue left China for the first time. The Drents Museum, an art and history museum in Assen, The Netherlands, arranged for it to be viewed through a CT scanning machine.

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CT Scan Reveals That Statue of the Buddha Is Actually a Mummy