New clues may change Buddha’s date of birth

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4236029-new-clues-may-change-buddha-s-date-of-birth/

In traditional narratives, Queen Maya Devi, the mother of Buddha, gave birth to him while holding on to a branch of a tree in a garden at Lumbini, in what is now Nepal. Accounts vary as to when this occurred, leaving uncertain the founding century of one of the world's major religions.