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Metal Detecting Finds in Cambodia

1 published discovery in the Artefacts category from Cambodia — coins, hoards, jewellery and artefacts recovered by detectorists and archaeologists.

Artefacts from Cambodia

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Famous findSecond half of the 11th century AD · found 1936

The West Mebon Vishnu: Southeast Asia's largest bronze, dug up after a farmer's dream at Angkor

Cambodia · ArtefactsFF 297

In 1936, the story goes, a farmer at Angkor in Cambodia dreamed the Buddha asked to be freed from the earth. Digging at the West Mebon temple uncovered the head and shoulders of a giant bronze Vishnu, the largest bronze ever cast in Southeast Asia, now reassembled for the first time.