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Gunung Padang is an archaeological site located in Karyamukti, West Java, Indonesia, 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest of Cianjur.Located at 885 metres (2,904 ft) above sea level, the site covers a hill—an extinct volcano—in a series of five terraces bordered by retaining walls of stone that are accessed by 370 successive andesite steps rising about 95 metres (312 ft).
Sunda Kingdom, Sundanese Hindu kingdom from 669 to 1579 CE in western and central Java including Gunung Padang site. Taruma Kingdom , 2nd and 6th centuries CE Indianised Hindu kingdom of Western Java to which some construction at Gunung Padang corresponds to.
Archaeologists claim this pyramid is 27,000 years is old. But some scientists argue the structure can't be that ancient—and that humans couldn't have built it. ... The Gunung Padang site in West ...
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In October 2023, an article by Natawidjaja et al., published in Archaeological Prospection, claimed that Gunung Padang is the oldest pyramid in the world, dating as far back as 27,000 years ago. In March of 2024, the publisher of Archaeological Prospection , Wiley , and the editors, retracted that paper stating that:
Prehistoric Indonesia is a prehistoric period in the Indonesian archipelago that spanned from the Pleistocene period to about the 4th century CE when the Kutai people produced the earliest known stone inscriptions in Indonesia. [1]
Gunung Kawi, Bali. Candi Gunung Kawi. Located in Sebatu village, Tampak Siring area, Gianyar regency. It is one of the oldest temple in Bali dated from 989 CE, the five temples is carved on the stone slopes forming grottoes. Candi Kalibukbuk. Located in Kalibukbuk village, Buleleng regency. It is one of the few Buddhist temple in Hindu ...
The Sunda Kingdom (Sundanese: ᮊ (ka) ᮛ (ra) ᮏ (ja) ᮃ (a) ᮔ᮪ (n) ᮞᮥ (su) ᮔ᮪ (n) ᮓ (da), romanized: Karajaan Sunda, Indonesian pronunciation:) was a Sundanese Hindu kingdom located in the western portion of the island of Java from 669 to around 1579, covering the area of present-day Banten, Jakarta, West Java, and the western part of Central Java.