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Gunung Padang (pictured), a 98-ft-deep 'megalith' submerged within a hill of lava rock, is said to be the oldest known man-made stone structure of its size, according to scientists.
Archeologists have criticised published research that claims Gunung Padang is the 'oldest pyramid' and claim the structure may not be man-made at all.
Sensational report that Indonesia’s Gunung Padang site is 25,000 years old is dismissed by archaeologists around the world
Currently, the title of the oldest pyramid in the world belongs to the Djoser pyramid in Egypt, which is 4,700-years-old. But recently, a new study published in the journal Archaeological Prospection has claimed that a "prehistoric
Archaeologists decry the publication of a study claiming that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia houses a "prehistoric pyramid."