July
31
/ 2013
Geologist Danny Hilman is on the verge of a major discovery – 120 kilometres south of Jakarta in Gunung Padang, sits an ancient arrangement of large stones atop a hill. Now evidence suggests that they are like the tip of a very large iceberg beneath the surface. Hilman, backed by a government taskforce, believes the stones are the top of a pyramid that has been covered over the millennia and that it is at least 9,000 years old, which would make it the oldest pyramid every to be discovered. Gunung Padong is known for having the largest number of megalithic sites in Indonesia. It was here that prehistoric humans built terraces into the mountaintop and arranged large stones for an
