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Gunung Padang

Gunung Padang

Historical landmark in IndonesiaWikipedia

Search complete. 101 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Gunung Padang".

Sep 18, 2026

Graham HancockGUEST
12:23
Some recent science is beginning to show cavities in the Great Pyramid which were not expected before.
Graham HancockGUEST
12:30
In Indonesia, in a place called Gunung Padang, what was formerly thought to be a natural hill with a megalithic site on top of it, has now been discovered to be a pyramid.
Graham HancockGUEST
12:42
It's been subjected to a very close geological study by one of Indonesia's leading geologists.
Graham HancockGUEST
12:49
They've surveyed the interior of the structure using ground penetrating radar and seismic tomography.
Andrew CollinsHOST
54:49
And, you know, Graham will be talking and delivering a lecture, a major lecture on the whole subject in November at our conference, Origins 2015.
Andrew CollinsHOST
55:02
And there are other, many other good speakers there as well, including via Skype, directly from Java, Danny Hillman, the geologist in Java who's redated the largest megalithic monument of Indonesia there, known as Gudung Padang, from about 600 BC back to pre-8000 BC.
Andrew CollinsHOST
55:26
So he will be talking and how he feels that this fits into the greater picture of what was going on at the end of the last Ice Age.
Andrew CollinsHOST
55:35
Obviously, Hugh and myself are there.
Aidan MattisHOST
77:11
I assume that was in reference to when I said that we need to fund some of these digs.
Aidan MattisHOST
77:18
in some cases yes in other cases i like for example um gunung padang is the one that graham hancock mentions first in the show there's some weirdness that we absolutely don't know anything about so it's one of two things either it's something we haven't discovered or it's just a natural formation but we're not going to know until somebody excavates it
Benjamin OlshanGUEST
77:38
Let me chime in on this, if I may.
Benjamin OlshanGUEST
77:41
So I think, because it's funny, so my daughter, I should comment, I have a daughter who ironically is interested in going into archaeology as an undergrad.

31 MINS LATER

Benjamin OlshanGUEST
108:57
That's unfortunately the world of fantasy, not fact.
Benjamin OlshanGUEST
109:01
If we tell the US
Aidan MattisHOST
109:02
government there's oil under Gunung Padang, we will drill.
Aidan MattisHOST
109:04
Yeah.
Ben Van KerkwykGUEST
287:10
... you know, rather than changing the date of civilization.
Ben Van KerkwykGUEST
287:14
And, you know, Gunung Padang, another one, Indonesia, this came out in October this year.
Ben Van KerkwykGUEST
287:17
I'm, I'm making a video on it now.
Ben Van KerkwykGUEST
287:19
You know, finally Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, who's been in- investigating that site, I mean, a decade ago, these are the results from him.

1 HR 19 MINS LATER

Ben Van KerkwykGUEST
366:51
... you know, rather than changing the date of civilization.
Graham DunlopHOST
366:54
[laughs]
Ben Van KerkwykGUEST
366:55
And, you know, Gunung Padang, another one, Indonesia.
Ben Van KerkwykGUEST
366:57
This came out in October this year.
JinHOST
12:13
There are some incredible archaeological sites in Indonesia.
JinHOST
12:17
Why did he pick Gunung Padang? To me, that's very strange because there are ones from the 7th and 8th century that are the literal Solomon's Temple, that are the tantric version of Solomon's Temple.
JinHOST
12:29
And I wonder why he would pick That one, that's a bunch of bricks in the jungle.
JinHOST
12:35
I do want to also discuss and go back and discuss the bog form.
Graham HancockSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
68:53
But here I believe that the beach rock has been used as a construction material.
Nathaniel LloydHOST
68:57
His theory of Atlantis just continued to sprawl as he has supposedly found evidence of this advanced precursor culture all over the world at Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, Gunung Padang in Indonesia, Yonaguni Monument in Japan, Nan Madal in Micronesia, and Tiwanaku in Bolivia.
Nathaniel LloydHOST
69:17
He has removed himself from the typical debate about Atlantis locations by asserting that, rather than one island, the precursor culture he has quote-unquote discovered was a
Graham HancockSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
69:28
global empire.
speaker_5NARRATOR
1:56
Locals have known about it for centuries.
speaker_5NARRATOR
1:59
They call it Gunung Padang, the Mountain of Enlightenment.
speaker_5NARRATOR
2:04
But here's the question that's been tearing the archaeological world apart for over a decade.
speaker_5NARRATOR
2:10
What if it's not a hill at all? What if underneath all that dirt and vegetation, there's something built, something ancient, something that shouldn't exist according to everything we think we know about human history? Some researchers claim there's a massive structure buried inside this hill, layers of construction going back not thousands of years, but tens of thousands.
speaker_5NARRATOR
3:54
Links in the description.
speaker_5NARRATOR
3:56
Okay, so here's how we're going to handle this.
speaker_5NARRATOR
4:00
Because a story like Gunung Padang comes with two very different tracks running side by side, and if you mix them up, you end up either dismissing something genuinely interesting or believing something that isn't actually supported.
speaker_5NARRATOR
4:16
So we're going to separate three things very carefully.
Aidan MattisHOST
38:37
You have enough yachts.
Aidan MattisHOST
38:38
Yeah, one more yacht might be cool, but you know what's cooler? Figuring out what's at the bottom of Gunung Padang.
Aidan MattisHOST
38:46
But anyway, that's probably enough ranting about the state of funding in the historical and archaeological community.
Aidan MattisHOST
38:52
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