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The museum was built in traditional Javanese architecture; the joglo house with pendopo pavilion. [2] The museum is integrated within Borobudur Archaeological Park inaugurated in 1983. Also located within Borobudur archaeological complex, right on west side of Karmawibhangga Museum is Samudra Raksa Museum displaying Borobudur Ship. The entry to ...
The centerpiece of museum is the full-scale reconstruction of the 8th-century Borobudur ship. It was used in a successful expedition from Indonesia to Madagascar and Ghana in 2003—2004. The Borobudur Ship — a 25 meter-long wooden ship modeled after wall reliefs found on the 8th century Borobudur temple in Central Java.
Today the Samudra Raksa is housed and displayed in Samudra Raksa Museum, located a few hundred meters north of Borobudur temple within the complex of Borobudur Archaeological Park. The Ship Museum Samudra Raksa was opened by Coordinating Minister for Welfare, Prof. Dr. Alwi Shihab of the Republic of Indonesia, on 31 August 2005. It was a ...
Borobudur Temple Compounds: the archaeological area of three Buddhist temples in the fertile Kedu Plain of Central Java, comprises Borobudur, Mendut, and Pawon. These three temples are located in a straight line, and are considered to have been built during the Shailendra dynasty circa 8th–9th centuries.
The archaeological excavation into Borobudur during reconstruction suggests that adherents of Hinduism [85] or a pre-Indic faith had already begun to erect a large structure on Borobudur's hill before the site was appropriated by Buddhists. The foundations are unlike any Hindu or Buddhist shrine structures, and therefore, the initial structure ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
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