While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

Gunung Padang, a megalith in West Java, Indonesia, is a striking sight, a lush hill dotted with a collection of sharp, ancient stones arranged for ritual importance. And though it may not look it ...

Another camp believes that Gunung Padang’s age is older. In 1982, B.M. Kim dated the site to 300 to 2000 B.C.E. But even these estimates are mild compared to the most shocking evaluation of them all — ...

Gunung Padang is widely considered a dormant volcano, and archaeologists say that ceramics recovered there so far suggest that humans have been using it for several hundred years or more — not ...

Gunung Padang is located in West Java, Indonesia, roughly 3,000 feet above sea level. The site covers an extinct volcano and comprises five terraces that border stone retaining walls.

Gunung Padang (pictured), a 98-ft-deep 'megalith' submerged within a hill of lava rock, is said to be the oldest known man-made stone structure of its size, according to scientists.

Gunung Padang is a megalithic site on a hilltop of Java island whose name means “mountain of enlightenment,” according to a study published Oct. 20 in the journal Archaeological Prospection.

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 ...

Gunung Padang has for many years been considered a megalithic structure—it sits on top of an extinct volcano in West Java, Indonesia, and is considered by locals to be a sacred site.

It would also make the Gunung Padang far older than Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic site dotted with carved stones, some 11,000 years old. ...

Gunung Padang is a megalithic site on a hilltop of Java island whose name means “mountain of enlightenment,” according to a study published Oct. 20 in the journal Archaeological Prospection.