Guar Kepah skeletons coming home from Netherlands after 150 years


GEORGE TOWN: The Penang government is in the process of bringing back 41 human skeletons stored at the National Natuurhistorisch Museum in Leiden, the Netherlands for 150 years.

"The visit to The Hague and Collection Centre Netherlands (CCNL), in the Netherlands was made from March 22-24, which represented a state government initiative to bring home 41 Guar Kepah human skeletons which are Neolithic prehistoric heritage assets currently stored at CCNL," he said in response to a question by A. Kumaresan (PKR-Batu Uban) at the Penang state assembly meeting here on Monday (Nov 20).

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