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Malaysian Batu Caves to get escalator, multipurpose hall

Located in Selangor, north of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, the Batu Caves are one of the most frequented Hindu shrines outside India. The limestone caves are believed to be over 400 million years old. A 42.7-metre-high golden statue of the Hindu god of War, Lord Murugan, towers near the foot of the rainbow-coloured staircase.

Unable to find lost boys, Thai police drop survival packages into cave

As a search in northern Thailand for 12 boys and their soccer coach missing inside a flooded cave entered a sixth day on Friday, police begins dropping survival packages through a shaft drilled in the mountainside not knowing if anyone is there.

Neanderthals built mystery underground circles 175,000 years ago

In the southwest of France, Neanderthals built one of the world’s oldest constructions—176,000-year-old semicircular walls of stalagmites in the bowels of a cave.

January 22, 2024
January 22, 2024

Malaysian Batu Caves to get escalator, multipurpose hall

Located in Selangor, north of Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, the Batu Caves are one of the most frequented Hindu shrines outside India. The limestone caves are believed to be over 400 million years old. A 42.7-metre-high golden statue of the Hindu god of War, Lord Murugan, towers near the foot of the rainbow-coloured staircase.

June 29, 2018
June 29, 2018

Unable to find lost boys, Thai police drop survival packages into cave

As a search in northern Thailand for 12 boys and their soccer coach missing inside a flooded cave entered a sixth day on Friday, police begins dropping survival packages through a shaft drilled in the mountainside not knowing if anyone is there.

May 26, 2016
May 26, 2016

Neanderthals built mystery underground circles 175,000 years ago

In the southwest of France, Neanderthals built one of the world’s oldest constructions—176,000-year-old semicircular walls of stalagmites in the bowels of a cave.