# Niah Caves

- **Map Alt:** Location in Malaysia
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- **Discovery:** 1950
- **Map Width:** 250px
- **Designation1:** WHS
- **Photo Caption:** The main entrance to the Niah Caves at sunset
- **Entrance Count:** 1
- **Designation1 Date:** 2024 (46th session)
- **Designation1 Type:** Cultural
- **Designation1 Number:** [https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1014 1014]
- **Designation1 Offname:** The Archaeological Heritage of Niah National Park's Caves Complex
- **Designation1 Criteria:** iii, v
- **Designation1 Free1name:** Region
- **Designation1 Free1value:** Asia-Pacific

Items found at the Niah Cave include Pleistocene chopping tools and flakes, Neolithic axes, adzes, pottery, shell jewellery, boats, mats, then iron tools, ceramics and glass beads dating to the Iron Age. The most famous find is the human skull dated at around 38,000 years BCE. Painted Cave has paintings and wooden coffin 'death ships'.

![Photo of Niah Caves](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/The_main_entrance_to_the_Niah_Caves_at_sunset..jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niah_Caves (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)