via Wetwired, 02 December 2023: A recent podcast about the Gunung Padang pyramid controversy.
A few weeks ago a paper was published in the journal Archaeological Prospection that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia is not, as is generally believed, around 2 thousand years old. And that it is actually closer to 20,000 years old. This claim was first floated back in 2014 but was largely disregarded for a few reasons. This 2023 paper seems like it’s mostly trying to vindicate the earlier one and rehabilitate those claims. Incidentally, this is also a site that Graham Hancock has leaned on heavily to support his worldwide, high-tech, lost civilization idea. Gunung Panang shows up in the very first episode of his 2022 Netflix series. Obviously, it’s a pretty grabby claim, so unsurprisingly more than a few popular websites absolutely lapped it up. To help us sort all this out, we’re joined by Archaeologists Dr Bill Farley and Steph Halmhofer.
Source: Wetwired
