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To get a sense of the timeline, new radiocarbon dating suggests that the structure at Gunung Padang in West Java, Indonesia, was built during the last ice age, sometime between 25,000 and 14,000 BC. It was then abandoned for thousands of years, before being deliberately buried around 7000 BC.
In fact, it may have been buried and lost for thousands of years before anyone on Egypt’s Giza Plateau or Britain’s Salisbury Plain even thought of creating a massive monument there. It would have stood thousands of years before, geologist Danny Hilman of Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency writes that earlier researchers assumed the structure had been built “between several hundred and a couple of thousand BCE,” in line with similar structures elsewhere in Asia.
Even more tantalizing, Hilman claims to have found evidence of underground chambers at the site, with the main chamber estimated at 10 metres high, 10 long and 15 wide — a vast hall large enough store untold treasures. He is pushing for future excavations to include directional drilling and downhole cameras in the hopes of revealing more.
Whether unorganized hunter-gatherers could have constructed such a structure is unknown. But doubts have been raised. One archaeologist, anonymous to avoid possible censure from the President of Indonesia, who has taken an interest in the ruins, put in this way.
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