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Fact Check: Viral image of Ugranarasimhadevara NOT found during excavation near Turkey-Syria border

This picture was shared virally both on Facebook and Twitter in 2020. The same image is being shared again on Facebook and WhatsApp.

By 23 Oct 2022 4:30 AM GMT
Fact Check: Viral image of Ugranarasimhadevara NOT found during excavation near Turkey-Syria border

An image is in circulation on social media with the claim that it shows the sculpture of Lord Narasimha found in the excavations near Turkey-Syria border.

This picture was shared virally both on Facebook and Twitter in 2020. The same image is being shared again on Facebook and WhatsApp.

A few users shared the image with an English caption "Ugranarasimhadevara. 3,200 year Idol of Lord Narasimha found during an excavation in Tigris–Euphrates (Mesopotamia) in the Southeastern Turkish–Syrian borders."

Some others are also sharing the image with the caption in Hindi as "तुर्की-सीरियाई सीमा पर टाइग्रिस में खुदाई के दौरान भगवान #नरसिंह की 3000 साल पुरानी मूर्ति मिली। कहाँ तक भागोगे? जहाँ भी जाओगे, वहीं पाओगे ये पूरा #ब्रह्मांड ही #राम का है!"


Fact check:

The claim that the viral image shows a sculpture found during the excavations near the Turkey-Syria border is FALSE. The image shows a sculpture in a temple near Kuta beach, Bali.

Firstly, when we searched for information about the excavation work near Turkey-Syria border, we found a few articles about the excavation work taken up in the ancient city of Karkemish and their findings. There are no reports of finding any sculpture resembling that in the viral image in any of the reports.

https://phys.org/news/2012-11-archaeologists-explore-site-syria-turkey-border.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/karkemish-archaeologists-dig-metres-away-from-isis-controlled-territory-1.2836599

When we performed a reverse image search using the Yandex search engine, we found an article on a website named virtourist.com. The website states that the image shows one of the statues on the gate of the Hindu temple located at Kuta Beach, Bali.

When searching with keywords 'temples at Kuta beach, Bali', we found a few temples in the area. All these temples have similar sculptures at their entrance.

Tripadvisor shares an image of the sculpture stating that it belongs to a temple named Dalem Penataram Desa Adat.


Using Google maps, when we searched for images of the temple, we found an image posted by a user in February 2013, which shows the sculpture identical to the viral image.

When observed carefully, we found that both images are of the same sculpture.


Therefore, the viral image is not a 3,200-year-old sculpture found during the excavations near Turkey-Syria border. The claim is FALSE.

Claim :   Viral image shows Sculpture found in excavation near Turkey- Syria border
Claimed By :  Facebook Users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Network
Claim Source :  Facebook
Fact Check :  False
News Summary - An image is in circulation on social media with the claim that it shows the sculpture of Lord Narasimha found in the excavations near Turkey-Syria border.
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Satya Priya BN

A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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