Phnom Penh, March 12 -- Archeologists have found a centuries-old body of Buddha statue during the second excavation at Ta Prohm Temple in northwest Cambodia's famed Angkor Archaeological Park.

The head of the Buddha statue was discovered in 1927 and is currently housed at the Angkor Conservation, said the APSARA National Authority (ANA) which is responsible for protecting the Angkor Archaeological Park.

The ANA said that the excavations at Ta Prohm yielded significant archaeological findings, including the body of a Buddha statue.

The second excavation conducted in February by the ANA in collaboration with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was made at an area outside the laterite enclosure northeast of the temple's third gallery...