Excavate

Crypt Extensively

Yield Stunning
 Shrine

Sandalwood Encrusted
with

Gemstone Ornate
 Artifact

Saint Parietal

Inscription Belong to
Between 2007 and 2010,
archaeologists from the Nanjing
Municipal Institute of Archaeology,
aided by other Chinese experts,
excavated a stone crypt buried
beneath the Grand Bao’en Temple in
Nanjing. Largely ignored by the
Western media but covered
extensively in China, the excavations
yielded a stunning find: The crypt
contained a 1,000-year-old model of a
Buddhist shrine known as a stupa,
made of sandalwood, crystal and gold
and encrusted with gemstones.
Inside the ornate artifact, the
archaeologists found the remains of
several Buddhist saints, including a
parietal (skull) bone that, according
to accompanying inscriptions,
belonged to Siddartha Gautama,
better known as the Buddha.
 Excavate
(Kazı yapmak)

Crypt Extensively
(Gömüt) (Kapsamlı
şekilde)

Yield Stunning
(Ürün vermek) (Baş döndürücü)
 Shrine
(Türbe,
mabet)

Sandalwood Encrusted
(Sandal ağacı) with (ile
kaplı olmak)

Gemstone Ornate
(Kıymetli taş) (Süslü)
 Artifact
(Eser)

Saint (Aziz) Skull

(Kafatası)

Inscription Belong to (-e

(Yazıt) ait olmak)