Tag Archives: Santubong

UNEARTHING MORE OF SANTUBONG’S MYSTERIOUS DISTANT PAST

[updated 05/08/2024 on status of project] The Santubong peninsula, which lies in the Sarawak River Delta, became a focus of Sarawak archaeology from the end of the 1940’s to the mid 1960’s principally by teams under Tom Harrisson, then Curator of the Sarawak Museum. Several sites which had revealed hints of archaeological interest since the […]

Update on our ‘Heritage Quest’ Campaign

[updated 09/2020] SHS launched its ‘HERITAGE QUEST’ (‘HQ’) campaign in November 2018 as part of its efforts to highlight and preserve Sarawak’s cultural heritage assets and to advocate for additional listing and gazetting of heritage items that are not in the list of cultural heritage items already listed by the Government as historic buildings, monuments […]

MISC. HERITAGE NEWS – March to July 2017

download pdf version SARAWAK Land clearing observed early March just uphill from the Bongkissam archaeological site, Santubong, raised alarm in the heritage-sensitive community, because of the known archaeological potential of the area (for example, uphill from the shrine, partial excavations undertaken in the 1950s-60s at Bukit Maras revealed items related to the Indian Gupta tradition, […]

Misc. Heritage News – March 2016

[download pdf] SARAWAK Restoration project for the old Sibu mosque – The Borneo Post reported that a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Sibu Islamic Welfare Trust Board (Lakis) and University College of Technology Sarawak (UCTS) on a conservation project of the old Masjid Al-Qadim mosque. The article mentions a cost of RM 1.8 […]

A selection of press articles on Sarawak heritage (2010 to early Sept. 2014)

_______________________________________________ Borneo Post, September 1, 2014 “8 lighted arches to enhance city’s beautification” “Eight lighted arches will be erected along the Main Bazaar. (…) They will (…) compliment the ‘Golden Bridge’ to be completed by 2016 to link Petra Jaya and Kuching. Under the 11th Malaysia Plan, Brooke Dockyard will be restored and renovated into […]