Due to its historical and spiritual value, the Gunung Lawu volcano in Indonesia is no longer within a Geothermal Working Area ...

A pyramid hidden within a hill on an island in West Java, Indonesia, could be the world’s oldest. This was revealed by an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists, geophysicists and geologists – who ...

Located some four hours south of Jakarta, the place is home to a number of stone pillars and statues. The site is spread over an area of about 150,000 sq m. Not only this, the place is considered ...

Retraction Note: The research article "Geo‐archaeological prospecting of Gunung Padang buried prehistoric pyramid in West Java, Indonesia," originally published in the Archaeological Prospection, has ...

Archaeologists have recently challenged the long-held belief that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia is the world’s oldest ...

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 ...

Gunung is not the name of the town which hosts Jazz Gunung; in Bahasa—the predominant language of Indonesia—it means mountain. Mountain Jazz is as good a name as any given that this one-day festival ...

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 ...

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