Bujang Valley The Wonder That Was Ancient Kedah

Our history books have imprinted on us that malacca is the most.

Bujang valley the wonder that was ancient kedah. Km in the merbok basin bounded by bukit coras choras hill and gunung jerai. The wonder that was ancient kedah unveils archaeological site of an ancient civilization of kedah that is much older than the malacca sultanate. Apart from the fact that this was where the ancient hindu buddhist influence took place bujang valley was the oldest centre of international and entrepot trade for malaysia with artifacts founded as dated to more than 1500 years ago. Readers can share this photographic journey of ancient history of malaysia yet unknown to most malaysians.

Malaysians are shocked that an ancient hindu temple candi belonging to the sri vijaya era about 1200 years was demolished by a developer to make way for a housing project in sungei batu area of kedah. What this book aims to achieve is merely to share the magnificent history of bujang valley in a simple factual manner to understand our glorious historical heritage. Most histories of malaysia begin with the sultanate of melaka founded in the 15th century despite the fact that it is fairly obvious to any student of asian history that the country has had the benefit of a strong indian influence in the past. The ancient valley of sivalingams bujang valley kedah.

The book is 135 pages on glossy paper with more than 100 colourful photos and maps the author is v nadarajan a local historian who hails from sungai petani the heartland of bujang valley. The bujang valley malay. Bujang valley archaeological site. It is the richest archaeological area in malaysia.

Persistent archaeological research eventually provided convincing information that the kingdom of kedah indeed preceded malacca despite the fact that is now argued by some that malacca was founded as early as 1262 a d. The ancient valley of sivalingams bujang valley kedah hidden deep within the bujang valley are a large number of lost forts cities a. Destruction of ancient hindu temple bujang valley kedah. 11 in sungei batu area of the bujang valley was one of the temples.

Ironically even the term bumiputera coined to denote indigenous peoples rather than. Previously known as arulmigu sri maha mariamman temple. A quick visit to the ruins of the ancient 2 500 year old bujang valley civilisation in kedah is enough to dispel this untruth. The bujang valley or lembab bujang sometimes referred to as the ancient wonder of kedah is a rich historical site covering an area of about 400sq.

Lembah bujang is a sprawling historical complex and has an area of approximately 224 square kilometres 86 sq mi situated near merbok kedah between gunung jerai in the north and muda river in the south. The wonder that was ancient kedah v nadarajan. So what is it about this bujang valley that makes itself being called as the ancient wonder of kedah. Shakti temple bukit rotan.