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Chopper_x t1_iyjxfyj wrote

Reply to comment by BodolftheGnome in Gold from ancient Troy, Poliochni and Ur had the same origin by IslandChillin

During a 1954 excavation of an 8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden archaeologists found a Buddha statuette from India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helg%C3%B6

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ShashwatSinha t1_iyls5mw wrote

Eight century is quite early

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Chopper_x t1_iymtymb wrote

The statue is dated even earlier

>small Buddha statuette from North India and a christening scoop from Egypt, both dating from the 6th century.

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