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Wise men disagree on site of nativity

By Munisha on Mon, 6 Jan, 2014 - 00:35

Wise men disagree on site of nativity

By Munisha on Mon, 6 Jan, 2014 - 00:35At the end of November, a team of British and Nepali archaeologists announced that they had uncovered remains of the “earliest ever Buddhist shrine”, establishing the site of the Buddha’s birthplace in present-day Nepal. Though the story gained a lot of publicity, some found it unconvincing.

The team reported in the UK online archaeological journal Antiquity that they had unearthed a 6th century BC timber structure buried within the Maya Devi Temple in the town...