Gunung Padang sits on top of an extinct volcano in West Java, Indonesia. In recent times, the beautiful hilltop has attracted bold theories that suggest it was an elaborate pyramid built by a long ...

The remains of extinct Homo erectus dredged from the seabed off Java, along with thousands of animal fossils, are revealing a long-lost ecosystem.

Set in jungled hills 250 miles east of Jakarta, Yogyakarta is close to Java's greatest ancient sites – Borobudur (the world's largest Buddhist temple), and Prambanan (a Hindu temple complex ...

Java’s Ancient Buddhist Masterpiece. April 28, 2014 ... ANCIENT HISTORY; You May Also Like. TRAVEL. Hike through mountain caves and Buddhist shrines in this South Korean park. TRAVEL.

According to a new study published in Nature, a further dating analysis of the river landscape in that same area has concluded that these ancient humans were still walking around Java 108,000 to ...

It reached Java more than 1.5 million years ago and the new dates suggest it died out at least 35,000 years before the arrival there of our own species, Homo sapiens.

But that does not mean the Palace of Westminster was built 40,000 years ago by ancient humans. It just means there’s carbon down there that’s 40,000 years old.