Humans did not build the world’s oldest pyramid 25,000 years ago. Instead, a layer of the Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia was built around that time. This discovery challenges the conventional belief that human civilization and advanced construction techniques emerged only with the advent of agriculture approximately 11,000 years ago.
The researchers who made this claim stated that the core of the pyramid consists of meticulously sculpted massive lava rocks and that the oldest construction element likely originated as a natural lava hill before being sculpted and then architecturally enveloped. They also found evidence that advanced construction practices were present when agriculture had not yet been invented, at sites such as Gunung Padang and Gobekli Tepe in Turkey.
However, some experts have questioned the findings. A UK archaeologist said there is no clear evidence that humans built the buried layers and that material rolling down a hill would naturally orient itself. Another archaeologist pointed out that 27,000-year-old soil samples from Gunung Padang do not carry hallmarks of human activity such as charcoal or bone fragments.
The researchers who made the discovery are open to other researchers coming to Indonesia to investigate further.
Source: https://www.wionews.com/trending/humans-did-not-build-worlds-oldest-pyramid-25000-years-ago-but-was-created-by-747654