A German-Austrian team of scientists has discovered that an ancient Buddhist statue found by a German expedition to Tibet in 1938 is carved from an ataxite, a class of very rare iron meteorites. Found by the 1938-1939 expedition of German scientists led by renowned zoologist and ethnologist Ernst Schäfer, the 1,000-year-old statue, also called the Iron Man, weighs about 10.6 kg and portrays the Buddhist god Vaisravana. Once the statue arrived in...
