Sarawak to bring ancient Niah Cave skeletons back from the US


KUCHING (Bernama): Sarawak’s Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Ministry plans to bring back more than 100 ancient human skeletons about 40,000 years old, excavated from Niah Caves and currently in Florida, United States, by next month at the latest.

Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said the skeletons were kept at the University of Florida and he would be there to arrange the shipment of the bones back to Sarawak.

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