I'm curious about this. Peninsular Malaysia is situated at the geographic center of the Malay archipelago and also the entire Southeast Asian region. The region is relatively safe from natural disasters. The climate is hospitable. We've not had destructive wars in our history.

Why does does Peninsular Malaysia have so little ancient ruins? You compare to Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Indonesia. We don't have anything notable compared to our neighbours to tie us back to ancient times. Why is that so?

Jangan tanya soalan susah. Esok National day, pls.dont racing racing

Cuz we were inhabited by monkeys all this while only recently manusia datang. 🤣😂🤣😂

Melaka Historic State

Even flower name want to change, what are left to preserved 😂

This post has been edited by mini orchard: Aug 30 2025, 11:22 AM

Tropical area. Easier to build using wood.

We do. Just that it usually isn't publisized as it doesn't match our modern narratives on what our history should be.

since you really want to know, you may read on

Centuries-old temple ruins in Bujang Valley furtively destroyed





find more info here: https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/201...estroyed/572841

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-25191587

we had A-Famosa, which was previously a much bigger structure

and there was one candi in Bujang Valley was demolished by some developer

Don’t understand. You expect big ruins like Angkor Wat? Small ruins?

Lol

60000 TAHUN


WAY BEFORE ADAM

F1 sequel started fliming in MY

We have plenty of it. We even have ancient cities still hidden from public. U get to see pictures of discovered structures of these ancient cities every now n then

Because the climate wasn't hospitable.

The largest civilisations tended to have wide open spaces to farm and build. The peninsular is heavily covered in jungle and that limits settlements to rivers, and also expose people to malaria. Even until the 19th century, very few roads connected the interior.

When people think malaysia is hospitable, they just mean its warm. Ironically the inhospitability resulted in the low population count, which then meant that there were no large wars.

My theory simple..the ancient malays here dont worship idol or just atheist...hence no ruins

peninsular was orang asli land very primitive people

malays came from sumatera/srivijaya empire centred at jambi after the fall to java/majapahit

Our buildings are mostly wood

It won't last

Ancient civilization require huge natural fertile basin to support its population. In peninsular no river/lake comparable to Mekong, Chao praya, tonle sap etc. So settlement in peninsular never become big enough to afford something like angkor wat, borobudur.

China's Forbidden City buildings majority also made from woods. It was built during Ming Dynasty and surviving till today.