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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).
The Djoser pyramid in Egypt is known as the oldest in the world at 4,700 years old. A new paper published in Archaeological Prospection calls that record into question with the strong claims of a ...
On the Ecuadorian side, a spiral architectural structure, similar to Montegrande, was discovered at the Santa Ana-La Florida site in Palanda Canton, and the tomb of an elite personage was found, [3] as well as evidence of cocoa cultivation dating back 5,500 to 5,350 years, in other words 1,500 years older than that earlier found in Mexico.
The Punden step pyramid is believed to be the predecessor and basic design of later Hindu-Buddhist temples structure in Java after the adoption of Hinduism and Buddhism by the native population. [citation needed] The 8th century Borobudur and 15th-century Candi Sukuh featured the step-pyramid structure. Toraja monolith, circa 1935.
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 Djoser pyramid in Egypt is ...
The Bosnian pyramid claims are pseudoarchaeological [1] theories put forward to explain the formation of a cluster of natural hills in the area of Visoko in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. [2] Since 2005, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Semir Osmanagić , a Bosnian-American businessman [ 2 ] based in Houston, Texas , [ 4 ] has claimed that these hills are the ...
Archaeologists in the country of Georgia discovered a 4,000-year-old burial chamber containing treasure and chariots. The team believes the site dates back to the Early Bronze Age and contained ...
The Shigir Sculpture, or Shigir Idol (Russian: Шигирский идол), is the oldest known wooden sculpture. [1] [2] It is estimated to have been carved c. 11,500 years ago, or during the early Holocene period, and is twice as old as Egypt's Great Pyramid. [3]