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Scientists uncover world's oldest known pyramid inside a mountain

News - Nov 8, 2023
Scientists uncover world's oldest known pyramid inside a mountain

To the casual observer, the structure in West Java Province in Indonesia looks like a hill that has formed naturally. It's covered in greenery, with four distinct sloping sides moving up the top which rounds off.

There's no denying that it does have a distinctive pyramid structure, but this structure in itself does form naturally.'

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For example, mountains in Antarctica appear to be pyramids and have been carved out by winds and glaciers creating distinctive straight edges. Not so in the case of Gunung Padang.

 

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