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25,000-year-old ‘pyramid’ with ‘hidden chambers’ was unlikely to be made by humans

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Published 12:05 5 Jan 2025 GMT

25,000-year-old ‘pyramid’ with ‘hidden chambers’ was unlikely to be made by humans

The Gunung Padang site in Indonesia has caused disagreements between researchers

Emily Brown

Emily Brown

Archaeologists have suggested that a pyramid-like structure suggested to be more than 25,000 years old may not have been built by humans.

Grab your tin-foil hats and settle in, because we're about to theorize!

The various pyramids in the world have sparked a lot of conspiracies over the years, mostly because it's just hard to picture how such huge, impressive and intricate structures were built without today's technology.

Aliens is one of the most common explanation for the impressive feat, but before you get too carried away, that's not what we're talking about here.

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Instead, archaeologists have offered up a different explanation for the Gunung Padang archaeological site in Indonesia, where one study claimed to have found evidence of human activity at the site dating back thousands of years before the next oldest pyramid.

Gunung Padang was claimed to be one of the world's oldest pyramids (Garry Lotulung/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Gunung Padang was claimed to be one of the world's oldest pyramids (Garry Lotulung/Anadolu via Getty Images)

The study even suggested there are 'hidden cavities or chambers' located within the structure; a discovery which naturally lends itself to questions about secrecy and covert behavior.

Authors of the study wrote: "Radiocarbon dating of organic soils from the structures uncovered multiple construction stages dating back thousands of years BCE, with the initial phase dating to the Palaeolithic era.

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“This study strongly suggests that Gunung Padang is not a natural hill but a pyramid-like construction.”

However, archeologists responding to the study have argued that the 'pyramid' was likely not one built by humans - or aliens - because it wasn't 'built' by anybody.

They claimed that while the study of Gunung Padang used 'legitimate data', its conclusions that very ancient humans had worked on the site were unjustified.

Archaeologists have dismissed the claims (Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Archaeologists have dismissed the claims (Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Flint Dibble, an archeologist at Cardiff University in Wales, told Nature that it is likely that the structure formed naturally, unless extraordinary evidence is found suggesting otherwise.

“Material rolling down a hill is going to, on average, orient itself," he said.

Archeologists also pointed out that there is no evidence of charcoal or bone fragments in the soil; two of common signs of human activity in archaeological sites.

Lutfi Yondri, an archeologist at BRIN in Bandung in Indonesia, told Nature that while his work showed that there was human habitation in the area between 12,000 and 6,000 years ago, none of his findings suggested the inhabitants had the 'remarkable masonry capabilities' which they would have needed to construct the 'pyramid'.

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So there you have it; the unusual structure isn't really a structure at all, but just the work of Mother Nature.

Featured Image Credit: Creative Commons / Alex Ellinghausen/Fairfax Media via Getty Images

Topics: Conspiracy Theories, Aliens, History, Science

Emily Brown
Emily Brown

Emily Brown is UNILAD Editorial Lead at LADbible Group. She first began delivering news when she was just 11 years old - with a paper route - before graduating with a BA Hons in English Language in the Media from Lancaster University. Emily joined UNILAD in 2018 to cover breaking news, trending stories and longer form features. She went on to become Community Desk Lead, commissioning and writing human interest stories from across the globe, before moving to the role of Editorial Lead. Emily now works alongside the UNILAD Editor to ensure the page delivers accurate, interesting and high quality content.

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