Hey, if you still remember our history lessons in high school, you’ll remember how Malacca was once a very well-known port, right? If you know your history, you’ll know that there are many other important kingdoms and ports in Malaysia way before Malacca, right?
Specifically, Sungai Batu is one of the places that’s in the big Bujang Valley. It’s a 4 km2 wide archaeological site nestled in the quiet palm oil plantation, founded by USM researchers and led by Prof. Dato’ Dr. Mokhtar Saidin back in 2007. The excavation works began around 2009 and stopped around 2021 for a few apparent reasons . There are around 54 sites successfully excavated by archaeologists around 2021 and actually many more treasures hidden underground.
Hence, there are countless findings here that prove our own ancient civilization’s technological and economical achievements. Some of them are wharves or docks, iron smelting sites, administrative buildings and also one religious monument. We all know Buddhism and Hinduism came to the peninsular before Islam, right? But the religious monument found in Sungai Batu proves that before any religion came here, the locals adopted animism.
However, because these archaeological artefacts or buildings are so old, unfortunately, they are also so fragile. As in, you’ll only see ruins here. Not the actual man-made awesome buildings you’ll see in adventure movies. Hey, those things in movies or tourist sites are mostly reconstructed, ours is still in the works.
Iron Smelting Demo Brick Making Experience how the strong bricks made for the buildings you see at the sites are made. They’ll give you all the materials and will show you the demo. After that, you can get all handsy and make your own brick. They also have an extra packet of the instant clay if you wanna try and do it at home.For this activity, they’ll teach you how archaeologists actually dig up artefacts buried underground.
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