Malaysia’s Lembah Bujang, or Bujang Valley, is one of the earliest archaeologically documented crossroads for trade goods and religious ideas in Southeast Asia. The valley, which is located south of ...

COMMENT Prominent Malaysian archaeologist Prof Mokhtar Saidin came out with two important findings during the two-day Old Kedah conference in Sungei Petani, recently. One was that animism, rather than ...

Civilisation signs: Mohd Mokhtar showing a picture of the shell midden at a press conference at the Penang state assembly. GEORGE TOWN: There could be links between the remains of the 5,710 year-old ...

SUNGAI PETANI: Various unique and interesting archaeological collections dating from the third to the 12th century AD are on display at the Bujang Valley Archaeological Museum in Merbok here, ...

The Kedah state government said it was helpless to stop a developer from harming ancient tomb temples at the historic temple site of Lembah Bujang because the area was privately owned. Noting that the ...

Studies must be done on Bujang Valley, an archaeologically rich area in Kedah, before Putrajaya can push for it to be considered by Unesco as a world heritage site, says the tourism and culture ...

A number of undocumented temple ruins in the Bujang Valley, the site of more than fifty ancient tomb temples dating back to 8th century, have been destroyed over the years, reveals an activist. Datuk ...

Steps should be taken quickly to inscribe Bujang Valley on the Tentative List as a World Heritage Site before more monuments fall prey to further furtive and irresponsible acts of destruction, said ...

In late 2022, actress, director, and producer Iman Corinne Adrienne, directed two documentaries commissioned by Think City that capture the unique culture and spellbinding beauty of two places not ...

An author has questioned why Bujang Valley was not included in the tourism and culture ministry’s move to obtain world heritage status for three more sites in the country. On July 8, Tourism and ...