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Masterpieces of the East - The Great Stupa Sculptures

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Series revealing the stories behind iconic artefacts from the Indian subcontinent. This edition examines a collection of stone carvings which originally adorned a vast Buddhist monument in ancient India. Now housed in the British Museum, these intricately-carved stones narrowly avoided being used as building materials until a Scottish surveyor intervened.