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Gunung Padang

FILE DATE 9000 BC

CROSS-REFS 02

STATUS NEVER CLOSED

SUMMARY

An Indonesian hill that drilling suggests is layered construction going back past the Ice Age. The paper was retracted. The hill remains.

FULL DOSSIER

Gunung Padang, West Java: a hilltop megalithic terrace complex over what geologist Danny Hilman Natawidjaja claims are engineered chambers descending into a pyramid up to 27,000 years old — which would predate every known civilization by an epoch. Documented: the surface site (c. 1st millennium BC), the drill cores, and a 2023 paper in Archaeological Prospection making the ancient-pyramid case — retracted by the journal in 2024 after methodological objections. Excavation was halted amid controversy. The site is the live test case: either the retraction ends it, or the retraction is the cover-up.

SOURCES ON RECORD

01Natawidjaja et al., Archaeological Prospection (2023; retracted 2024)

02retraction notice, Wiley (2024)

03Indonesian archaeological survey reports

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