World's oldest pyramid not built by humans

Circumambulation of world's largest excavated Buddhist temple: Borobudur, Indonesia

Gunung Panang Pyramid in Java, Indonesia, is volcano size with unexplained hewn rocks.

Indonesia has a tribe that keeps its dead around.

Officially, the largest pyramid in the world is in Cholula in ancient Mesoamerica near Mexico City, not in Egypt. The actual largest may be in Bosnia, but officials have not recognized it as anything more than a mountain shaped like a pyramid, despite its cave/tunnel system and artifacts allegedly found in the area.

Another largest/oldest contender is in formerly Buddhist Indonesia. Like Mexico, it is massive. Like Bosnia, it is the size of a mountain and very old. Science would previously not acknowledge Indonesia. Now it does, with a twist: Archeologists say it was not built by humans.

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Gunung Padang Pyramid, Java, Indonesia

Who could have built Gunung Padang mountain?

Indonesia is home to the "world's largest Buddhist temple," Borobudur, on the island of Java. The pyramidal structure was built without mortar like Egyptian pyramids, as if mimicking the smoldering volcano visible behind it.

Did the designers and builders -- who were likely not earthling humans (but rather space devas humanoids, "shining ones," "gods," ETs or extradimensionals) -- create an even older and far more massive Indonesian pyramid? Archaeologists claim:

The world's oldest pyramid was built 25,000 years ago, but it was not created by humans. [This is said to be about the time Egypt's great Sphinx was built based on visible watermarks at its base.]

Djoser Step Pyramid, Egypt was thought oldest.

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step Pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), a paper published in October claimed a layer of Indonesia's Gunung Padang Pyramid in Java was constructed as far back as 25,000 BC -- though there has since been doubts as to whether the structure was actually human-made.

Population density of Java by subdistrict as of 2022, with major urban areas (Twotwofourtysix)

Are these massive stones hewn or natural?

In research led by Danny Hilman Natawidjaja of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, and published in the journal Archaeological Prospection, the academics write that “the pyramid’s core consists of meticulously sculpted massive andesite lava” and that the “oldest construction” element of the pyramid “likely originated as a natural lava hill before being sculpted and then architecturally enveloped.”

They write: “This study sheds light on advanced masonry skills dating back to the last glacial period. This finding challenges the conventional belief that human civilisation and the development of advanced construction techniques emerged only…with the advent of agriculture approximately 11,000 years ago.

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“Evidence from Gunung Padang [in Java] and other sites, such as Gobekli Tepe [in Turkey], suggests that advanced construction practices were already present when agriculture had, perhaps, not yet been invented.”

The academics also claim that the builders “must have possessed remarkable masonry capabilities.” but one UK archaeologist has rubbished the paper, saying he is “surprised [it] was published as is.”

Flint Dibble, from UK's Cardiff University, told the journal Nature that there is no clear evidence to suggest the buried layers were built by humans. More

• Liam O'Dell, Indy 100 via MSN, Aug. 6, 2024, "'World’s oldest pyramid' built 25,000 years ago was not made by humans, archaeologists claim"; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly