A recent news report by a regional television station has reignited debate on the progress involving archeological findings in Ancient Kedah. 

Questions are being raised on the development of the Bujang Valley as a heritage site that encompasses what was once a large iron smelting industry, and a thriving port city that hosted a multi-cultural and multi-religious society.

The report, which claimed that progress and development at the site had stalled, caught Universiti Sains Malaysia’s (USM) Centre for Global Archeological Research (CGAR) researchers, currently working on the historical site, by surprise.