Across the world, archaeologists keep stumbling on structures so old, so large and so technically sophisticated that they ...

A 2023 paper was published in Archaeological Prospection titled “Geo-archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia,” claiming that the megalithic site ...

In October, a group of archaeologists dropped a bombshell study that claimed a structure in Java, Indonesia is a “multi-layered prehistoric pyramid” dating back “thousands of years B.C.E.”—predating ...

Gunung Padang is an Indonesian pyramid that sits on top of an ancient volcano and could show evidence of Ice Age humans possessing advanced technology. Since the 1980s, a number of in-depth surveys ...

A headline-grabbing paper 1 claiming that a structure in Indonesia is the oldest pyramid in the world has raised the eyebrows of some archaeologists — and has now prompted an investigation by the ...

An image shared online authentically shows "the world's oldest pyramid," Gunung Padang, in Indonesia. Rating: Fake (About this rating?) An image shared on social media in March 2025 claims to show the ...

Archeologists have found that Indonesia's pyramid, a 98-ft-deep 'megalith' submerged within a hill of lava rock, ranks as the world's oldest pyramid. Gunung Padang, first re-discovered by Dutch ...

An image shared on social media in March 2025 claims to show the "world's oldest pyramid," Gunung Padang, in Indonesia. Though Gunung Padang is a genuine archaeological site in Indonesia, the image in ...

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