The Gunung Padang archaeological site in Indonesia's West Java province is not a pyramid, scholars told AFP, refuting claims circulating online worldwide. The images shared in the false posts are ...

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 ...

I n March 2024, the journal *Archaeological Prospection* retracted a controversial paper led by Indonesian archaeologist Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, following concerns raised by exp ...

Dating back to 25,000 BC, Gunung Padang is 22,000 years older than Egypt’s Step Pyramid, rewriting what we know about ancient construction. If humans built it, they must have possessed advanced ...

But a study from October claims Indonesia’s Gunung Padang pyramid could date as far back as 25,000 BC, challenging traditional timelines of ancient structures. The findings at Gunung Padang ...