SEBERANG PERAI, May 14 — The quiet sleepy village of Guar Kepah will soon become a busy tourism spot the Guar Kepah Archaeological Gallery opens at the end of this year. The...
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The small village, tucked away in the rural area of Kepala Batas in Penang and surrounded by paddy fields, will be put on the map of an archaeological trail that will start from Gua Kelam in Perlis, to Sungai Batu and Lembah Bujang in Kedah, and finally ending at Lenggong Valley in Perak. “It will take time to ensure the interiors are designed to accommodate the ‘Penang Woman’ and also the 41 artefacts that will be sent back from Leiden, the Netherlands,” he said.The Guar Kepah shell midden was the first archaeological site in Malaysia to be discovered by British archaeologist George William Earl in the 1840s.
Wong said that at that time, the shell middens were recorded at a height of about 18 feet by the British. Wong said he has met with the National Heritage Department and the Netherlands Ambassador regarding the repatriation process of the 41 human skeletons from the Netherlands.He said the National Heritage Department, the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture and the Foreign Ministry are working together on the repatriation process to Malaysia.
Aside from the 41 skeletons, archaeological works by Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Centre for Global Archaeological Research at Guar Kepah discovered a partial skeleton of a woman in 2017.
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