A recent analysis of carbon-dating by the Miami-based Beta Analytic Lab has apparently validated findings by a government-sanctioned team that a man-made structure, buried under Mount Padang in Cianjur, West Java, is older than the Giza pyramid.



Carbon-dating test results from the Miami lab show that the structure could date back to 14,000 BC or beyond.



The lab used samples of sand, soil and charcoal found at a depth of between three and 12 meters beneath the mountain’s surface.



The Giza pyramids were constructed around 2,500 BC.



“The analysis of the Miami lab dismisses doubts over an earlier test conducted by the National Nuclear Agency [Batan]. There is no more doubt that the structure beneath Mount Padang is older than the Giza pyramid,” geologist and member of the Mount Padang research team Budianto Ontowirjo said on Sunday.



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