CNN. A statue of a sitting Buddha that made its way from a temple in China to a market in the Netherlands revealed an extraordinary secret a 1, 000-year-old mummified monk.
The mummy was discovered, encased in a cavity in the statue, when a private buyer brought it to an expert for restoration. It’s unclear when or how the statue was removed from China.
But it wasn’t until a team of researchers and scientists did a CT scan — a comprehensive three dimensional x-ray image — last year, did they discover the mummy’s organs were missing.
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