Tag: Malay Peninsula (region)

An independent researcher is arguing for Malaysian history books to be changed to reflect the earliest civilisation in Malaysia originated ...

Southeast Asia is the crossroads to a number of human migrations, the largest of which must have been the Austronesian ...

Malaysians and Singaporeans would be familiar about how a Sumatran prince named Parameswara founded the Malacca Sultanate, but was there ...

From the Palembang Centre for Archaeology: It is the general assumption that Srivijaya was an powerful maritime kingdom that played ...

First the lost city of Johor, now the lost city of Pahang? The existence of seven pyramid-like hills near Lake ...

I mentioned in the previous post about the Negara Kertagama about how Malaysia and Indonesia are embroiled in a dispute ...

Last week, I featured the reconstructed temples ('candi') that populate Kedah's Bujang Valley in Malaysia, an area rich in archaeological ...

When the British acquired the island of Penang from the Sultan of Kedah, they probably did not realise that they ...

Today's short history series focuses on Malaysia. Again, the information here is scant and sometimes contradictory.

In the first part of Srivijaya: A primer, we learnt about the empire’s role in controlling trade between China and ...