A news feature showing you why you should skip the malls for the Niah Caves.
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Abandoning the malls and discovering the Caves
Brunei fm, 28 Feb 2010
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Taking a walk through Niah caves
March 11th, 2010 noelbynature Posted in Malaysia 1 Comment »
Malaysian museum opens ceramics exhibition
March 10th, 2010 noelbynature Posted in Exhibitions, Malaysia, Museums, Underwater Archaeology No Comments »
Ceramics from Malaysia’s sunken shipwrecks are exhibited at the National Museum.
Ceramics from sunken ships on display at National Museum
New Straits Times, 27 February 2010
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8,000-year-old human remains discovered in Malaysia
February 8th, 2010 noelbynature Posted in Malaysia 1 Comment »
An archaeological team from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Terengganu Museum report the discovery of human skeletal remains, estimated to be about 8,000 years-old, from a site at Kenyir cave at the state of Terengganu in the Malaysian Peninsula.
Mesolithic Age Skeletal Remains Found In Terengganu Cave
Bernama, 06 February 2010
8,000-year-old human remains found
The Star, 07 February 2010
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Coins and ceramics unearthed during construction works in Malaysia
January 14th, 2010 noelbynature Posted in Malaysia No Comments »
Construction works at Terengganu, a state on the eastern part of the Malaysian peninsula have revealed artefacts such as Chinese coins and ceramics. Authorities have stepped in to claim the artefacts, but it appears that some of the construction workers have been quietly selling off some of the artefacts to private collectors already.
Ancient coins and artefacts found in Terengganu’s Chinatown worksite
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Mid-December archaeology linkdump
December 18th, 2009 noelbynature Posted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam No Comments »
It’s mid-December already, and I haven’t posted any news so far on account of being in Hanoi for the first couple of weeks, and then falling majorly sick after returning. So rather than trying to catch up with three week’s worth of archaeology news from Southeast Asia, here’s all of them in one brilliant link dump, sorted by date (most recent ones first) and country.
Wednesday Rojak #67: The Diwali Edition
October 21st, 2009 noelbynature Posted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Wednesday Rojak No Comments »
Hindus around the world celebrate the Festival of Lights, or Diwali, over the past weekend, and so we have a couple of Hindu-Indian themed posts in this week’s edition of Rojak.
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Papers on Malaysian archaeology online
October 8th, 2009 noelbynature Posted in Malaysia, Papers 1 Comment »
Something I discovered while surfing the resources at my library. Universiti Sains Malaysia keeps an open access repository of research by its staff and students, including those of the archaeology department. A good number of the papers are in Malay, but nothing that a little Google Translate can’t handle.
