the Gunung Padang One of the most mysterious structures (pyramid) in the world, which has sparked serious controversy in recent months. Meanwhile, thanks to an interesting Netflix series (People Before Humanity), news of the building has reached people who have never met it before. Theories say that there is a building in Indonesia that may be 25 thousand years old. Its internal structures may indicate this, according to some researchers. It is a pyramid, several pyramids on top of each other, older than the Egyptian pyramids or the Mayan pyramids, and all that is known so far is the work of… Older than the pyramid and edifice.
According to a study, humans have been sculpting them for thousands of years.
However, a study on Gunung Padang has now been retracted by the Journal of Archaeological Excavation. Archaeologists were indeed very skeptical about the announcement from the beginning. The study also claimed that people created complex architectural works even before agriculture existed.
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But it was also said that there are hidden cavities and rooms in the mountain, and the creators wanted to hide the building from the world. According to many scientists, the study published in the paper presented the data correctly, but the paper reached incorrect conclusions. Some investigators have taken issue with the fact that they have found places in the area where people lived tens of thousands of years ago, but they lived in caves, so there is not much to indicate the identity of the advanced builders or their other creations.
But soil samples collected from the site did not indicate human activity 25,000 years ago either.
The study was eventually withdrawn.
Here's Gunung Padang as it really is:
A huge discovery that defies history – the oldest pyramid in the world was found inside a mountain
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(via The New York Times)
