A 1,000-year-old Buddhist statue discovered in Tibet by Nazis searching for the origins of the Aryan race was hewn from meteorite, scientists have found.
The "Iron Man" statue, which bears a swastika on its chest, was brought back to Germany in 1938 after being found in Tibet by a team of SS members led by zoologist Ernst Schäfer.
The expedition was backed by Heinrich Himmler, the SS chief, who believed that the secret origin of the entire Aryan race could be uncovered in Tibet.
Now the first scientific study of the statue's origins by experts from Stuttgart University has found that it is made of ataxite, a rare type of iron meteorite with a high nickel content.
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The base was a dead giveaway.Anyone who has ever broken a chunk off of a meteorite would recognize the mineral pattern.The article did not state that scientists had broken the base for testing,but I assume they did.Look for more research to be done on artifacts in museums and private collections.This is an amazing find,probably the first of many.
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