Discovered Buddha statues carved from extremely rare meteors

A 1,000-year-old Buddha image, found in 1938, was carved from an extremely rare meteorite, a group of scientists at the University of Stuttgart said.

Research has been published in the Journal of Meteoritics and Planetary Science.

The statue weighs 10kg, is carved in the style of interference between Buddhist culture and ancient Bon culture in Tibet, expressing the god Vaisravana (Da Van Thien Vuong), one of the Four Great Kings, the town in the North, also known as Northern Phuong Vuong.

Meteorite Buddha statues dating back 1,000 years (Photo: Phys.org)

Through the figurative analysis, the team found the extremely rare ataxite layer of meteoric iron. According to scientists, the statue was carved from a Chinga meteorite falling in the border area between Mongolia and Siberia about 15,000 years ago. Since many centuries ago, gold miners have found this meteorite here.

Based on the meteorite origin, the team valued the statue to be worth $ 20,000 and the statue's date is about a thousand years old.

In ancient times, meteorites were also objects that inspire god statues to worship many cultures, from the Inuit in Geenland to the Australian Aborigines. Even today in some of the most famous religious regions in the world, such as the Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the Black Stone is also thought to be made of a rock meteorite.