Nevine El-Aref, Wednesday 26 Apr 2023. A newly discovered marble statue of the Buddha at a temple in Berenike on the red sea shows a connection between Egypt and India during the Roman Empire.

In Spiritus, Sanjukta Mitra does not merely present a body of work — she conjures a mythopoetic realm where the personal and ...

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It depicts a divinity, but one with nothing like the buffed physique of a Greco-Roman god. The Buddha’s body seems to have no muscles or bones. It’s all smooth curves, soft swells, linear rhythms.

The Gandhara kingdom, occupying what is now northwestern Pakistan between 1500 BCE and 1000 CE, is known for its Greco-Roman and South Asian-Buddhist influences exhibited through faith, art, and ...

Nevine El-Aref, Wednesday 26 Apr 2023. A newly discovered marble statue of the Buddha at a temple in Berenike on the red sea shows a connection between Egypt and India during the Roman Empire.