Gunung Padang

❥×Enrolment Date : 2020-03-16

Gunung Padang is a megalithic site located in Karyamukti, Campaka, Cianjur Regency, West Java, Indonesia, 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of the regency seat or 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from Lampegan station. Located at 885 metres (2,904 ft) above sea level, the site covers a hill, an extinct volcano, in a series of five terraces bordered by retaining walls of stone that are accessed by 370 successive andesite steps rising about 95 metres (312 ft). It is covered with massive hexagonal stone columns of volcanic origin. The Sundanese people consider the site sacred and believe it was the result of King Siliwangi's attempt to build a palace in one night.

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Recent discoveries as deep as 90 feet found the hill-pyramid to contain hidden chambers, shafts and evidence of fragments of columnar basalt, which have been radio carbon-dated to be as far back as 20,000 BC.

Gunung Padang was first described in the Dutch naturalist manual Rapporten van de Oudheidkundige Dienstin (Reports of the Archaelogical Service) as a hill with megalithic structures. Located in Desa Karyamukti in Cianjur, West Java, the remarkable archaeological region is about 130km south of Jakarta and 100km west of Bandung.

But what was initially thought to be a hill is now believed to be a man-made pyramid, thanks to Dr Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Chief Geologist of the National Team for Gunung Padang Research and Senior Scientist at the Indonesian Institu

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