via The Star, 23 September 2023: The remains of 41 prehistoric individuals from Malaysia’s Guar Kepah archaeological site, which have been housed in the Netherlands for about a century, are set to be carefully repatriated to Malaysia, where they will undergo further analysis and potentially be displayed in a specially designed gallery.
The remains of 41 prehistoric people, discovered in Seberang Prai’s Guar Kepah archaeological site near the Kedah border between 1851 and 1934, would have to be handled with care all the way from the Netherlands where they have been “staying.”
“They are so fragile that any mishap can break them,” said Nurul Amira Md Isa, the curator of Chief Minister Incorporated (CMI), the project and landowner of the Guar Kepah site.
Guar Kepah is the first archaeological site recorded in Malaysia and is estimated to be between 5,000 and 6,000 years old.
It is considered unique in the country because it has shell middens, the prehistoric version of garbage dump sites.
