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June 06, 2007
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An update on the hobbit debate; Mike Morwood’s team is now expanding the search for the hobbit in the surrounding regions. photo credit: RosinoIndonesian ‘hobbit’ challenges evolutionary theoryAP, via Jakarta Post, 07 March 2010The feud has played out in top scientific journals. But a growing consensus has emerged among experts on human origin that this ...
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Stranger in Paradise, the diary of an expat in Bali, has a feature on the the recent excavations at the Candi Kimpulan site at Universitas Islam Indonesia.Buried Treasure and Hindu-Balinese CrusadesStranger in Paradise, March 2010Twenty metres into the site my jaw drops: I spy a largish crater, inside which is nestled a pristine tenth-century stone ...
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Sorry for the lack of posts this week, as I was finishing up a lot of work and posts will resume again next Monday (with a lot of catching up to do!). Just a quick query from our Facebook page, posted by Christina Sewall who is looking for information about this ceramic piece:Christina writes: “I’m ...
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Indonesia’s Radya Pustaka Museum receives a rp24 billion (US2.6 million) budget for renovations this year. You may remember this museum from a while back because of a scandal involving the theft of statues from its collection, as well as recent attempts to digitise the manuscript collection.Radya Pustaka Museum to be RenovatedTempo Interaktif, 04 Mar 2010The ...
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Remember last month when Cambodia complained to Google about its incorrect maps at the Preah Vihear border? Ogle Earth has a nice roundup about the disputed maps and a little background to the border spat. I found it quite interesting that when the temple was awarded to Cambodia by the ICJ, Thailand didn’t lower the ...
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A rare statue of a bronze tiger, made in a sleeping position, was discovered in Ha Tinh province of Vietnam. The bronze tiger is thought to belong to the Sa Huynh culture, which are thought to be the precursor to the Chams. (You can check out some Sa Huynh artefacts that were on display at ...Show on map
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An ancient tomb, thought to date to the 16th century, was discovered in the Thua Thien-Hue province of Vietnam.Old tomb discovered in Thua Thien-HueVOV News, 19 December 2008An ancient tomb has been uncovered in Quang Cong commune, Quang Dien district, central Thua Thien-Hue province, the Revolutionary History Museum said on December 16.Workers of the provincial ...
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The Vietnamese government has completed its documentation of the ancient capital of Thang Long (Ha Noi), required for submission to UNESCO for World Heritage consideration.Royal citadel’s …
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This article in the Nation reminisces about how much Angkor has changed in the last 10 years, having seen a tenfold increase in visitors from 1998 to 2008. One thing’s for sure, one can no longer take those romanticised pictures of temple ruins sitting quietly in the jungle. photo credit: IIZUKA naoAlone once, and lost ...
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Vietnam has its share of mysterious mummies too - this one is from Ho Chi Minh City, apparently an aristocrat who died over 140 years ago.A Vietnamese MummyThanh Nien News, 23 May 2008According to Dr. Ba Trung Phu, head of the Display and Propaganda Division of the museum, the mummy was discovered in an ancient ...
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wah lau... lol-ed!