The discovery of a Buddha Statue by a Polish-US mission points to ancient civilizational links between India and Egypt.
India's Buddhist traditions left their trail of ascetic uniqueness in ancient Egypt. A statue of Buddha, the reverent ascetic who founded Buddhism, has been discovered in Egypt's seaport of Berenice on the Red Sea, about 900 km south of Cairo and nearly 3800 km west of ancient India's port city of Khambat in the present-day Gujarat state.
The Buddha statue, discove...
