Niah caves skeletal remains at home

Long-awaited return: Krigbaum (right) briefing Ting about a display on the return of prehistoric Niah skeletal remains to Sarawak at the seminar in Kuching.

KUCHING: More than 100 bone fragments that were originally found in Sarawak’s Niah Caves will be home after being abroad for more than 40 years.

The return of some 122 bone fragments, which were taken to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the 1960s, was made possible following the signing of a memorandum between the Sarawak Museum Department and the University of Nevada in 2017.