While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...

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 ...

A new study claims that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia is a "prehistoric pyramid" from up to 27,000 years ago. The study authors site ground-penetrating technologies as the main source for the ...

Scientists in a now-retracted study analyzed Gunung Padang and claimed a pyramid site underneath was over 16,000 years old and made of lava. Photo from Natawidjaja, Bachtiar, Nurhandoko, Akbar, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word "pyramid" immediately brings to mind the imposing triangular structures of the Egyptian desert. Despite their iconic ...

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, the image in ...

Archeologists have found that Indonesia's pyramid, a 98-ft-deep 'megalith' submerged within a hill of lava rock, ranks as the world's oldest pyramid. Gunung Padang, first re-discovered by Dutch ...

Buried beneath terraced volcanic rock in the highlands of West Java, Indonesia, lies a hill that briefly shook the archaeological world. Known as Gunung Padang, or "Mountain of Light," the site has ...

The pyramids of Egypt are staggeringly ancient. By the time of Cleopatra, they were already thousands of years old. But new research claims that another pyramid might have them all beat, potentially ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The paper's authors write that they have "compelling evidence of a complex and sophisticated megalithic ...