World’s Oldest Pyramid Discovered in Indonesia

This picture taken on July 6, 2011 shows a site of Megalithic Gunung Padang in Cianjur, West Java. The site of Megalithic Gunung Padang is the largest megalithic site in South-Eastern Asia, consist of five terraces with an area of 900 square meters, located on a hill of 885 meters above sea level, in Karyamukti village about 50 kilometers from Cianjur city. Adek Berry/AFP

Mysterious pyramids are not unique to ancient Egypt and the Mayans; archaeologists recently discovered the world’s oldest pyramid in the lava rocks of Indonesia’s Mount Padang.

The pyramid was found in Gunung Padang, a megalithic site in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia, near the headwaters of the Cimandiri River, by a team led by geologist Danny Hilman Natawidjaja of Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency.