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Fa Hien was a legendary Buddhist monk who supposedly lived in this remote cave for months. The rock that forms Fa Hien Cave, also called Pahiyangala Cave, is supposedly the largest natural rock in the entire continent of Asia, but that’s not its only claim to fame. During the 1960s, excavators found prehistoric human remains that date back about 37,000 years, and further research has evidence that the cave was used as a human dwelling during the Pleistocene period. In 2012, a complete human skeleton was found from around this period, with stone tools, beads, and weapons, and was deemed to be the oldest skeleton ever found in South Asia.
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