West Java's Overachieving Pile of Dirt Refuses to Stay Dead in the Alternative History Cycle
Despite having its grand claim of being a 25,000-year-old man-made pyramid formally retracted for accidentally dating random non-anthropogenic dirt, Indonesia's Gunung Padang continues to haunt orthodox archaeology. Recent local investigations and ongoing subsurface anomalies keep alternative historians convinced that the hill is an elaborate multi-layered megalithic structure built long before civilization was permitted to exist. Mainstream archaeologists, meanwhile, are fervently praying that everyone will just go back to looking at standard pottery shards.