The Buddha statue brought by the Nazis from Tibet is made of meteorite

Berlin - The statue of Buddha, brought to Germany from Tibet by the Nazi expedition of Ernst Schäfer just before World War II, is carved from a meteorite. This was reported by the AP agency. The meteorite fell to Earth thousands of years ago.
  Elmar Buchner from the university in Stuttgart, Germany, stated that the statue could be a thousand years old, although the mentioned meteorite was officially discovered in 1913.
  Schäfer's expedition traveled to Tibet under the patronage of Nazi Germany in 1938, aiming to search for the roots of the Aryan race, which the ideology at the time considered to be the genetic and cultural pinnacle of humanity.
  The existence of the 10.6-kilogram statue, known as the "Iron Man," was revealed in 2007 when its owner passed away. The work was then auctioned. However, German and Austrian scientists obtained permission from the new owner to conduct a chemical analysis. This revealed that the statue was created from the Chinga meteorite, which fell to the area of the present-day Russo-Mongolian border 15,000 years ago.
  The Nazis were undoubtedly intrigued by the left-facing swastika. The swastika was used by various cultures, and the Nazis employed it as their symbol in a right-facing variant.
  The statue represents the Buddhist king Vaiśravaṇa. He is one of the four guardians of the world's directions - north.