Danny Hilman Natawidjaja's ground-penetrating radar revealed something beneath Gunung Padang that shocked the world — layer after layer of buried construct
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Danny Hilman Natawidjaja's ground-penetrating radar revealed something beneath Gunung Padang that shocked the world — layer after layer of buried construction, each older than the last, with the deepest levels possibly dating to 25,000 BCE. If confirmed, this Indonesian hilltop site would be the oldest deliberately constructed structure on Earth. The finding was published in an archaeology journal in 2023, immediately sparking fierce debate. Either the dating is wrong, or everything we think we know about when humans began building is wrong.
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