International interest in the Javanese pyramid of Gunung Padang has been growing since its rediscovery in 2011 by Indonesian geologist Dr Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, who has kindly written the foreword of this book and provided many of his personal photos.

History researchers such as Graham Hancock and Dr Robert Schoch have visited the site and been duly impressed that the top of the mountain is indeed an ancient stepped pyramid. The site was constructed in phases over many thousands of years. The oldest levels have produced carbon datings in the realm of 23,000 to 28,000 years before present.

This beautifully illustrated book will illuminate the mysteries of Gunung Padang. It will explain why this missing chapter of prehistory is so important, and familiarize you with the facts of its rediscovery.

It will also show that our version of human origins is in need of a major revision due to this and other discoveries such as Gobekli Tepe in southern Turkey. The vast quantity and quality of superb stonework and pyramid building around the planet simply cannot be explained in the current paradigm. A new story of our ancient past has been crystallizing over the last few decades due to the work of independent researchers, new technological tools, and ongoing archaeological investigations.

The evidence clearly points to there having been at least one globe-spanning civilization before our own, and that it was destroyed by the dramatic world-wide sea level rise of around 125 metres at the sudden end of the last ice age, around 11,600 years ago.

Many believe that the oldest pyramids and megalithic complexes of the world were built before then, and that the hundreds of myths of the Great Flood that are found all around the world are memories of this time. One of the places that lost the most coastal land was Indonesia, which had been a huge and abundant South East Asian subcontinent known as Sundaland. Gunung Padang, is almost certainly the remains of an antediluvian civilization. Its unexplored underground chambers may hold the secrets of humanity’s past. It may even hold the key to creating a sustainable future by avoiding the mistakes of previous cycles!