No, Atlas Obscura, the world's oldest pyramid isn't in Indonesia
All reporters can't be archaeology experts — but they should at least know how to fact check.
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Granted, Atlas Obscura (which is awesome) should not be expected to be experts in archaeology, or to have the expertise to recognize pseudoarcheology, at least when it’s not incredibly overt. But earlier this month, Atlas Obscura published this piece, which repeats the claims of Dr. Danny Hilman Natawidjaja of Indonesia, published on October 20 in Archaeological Prospection. Natawidjaja is a geologist, but also an Atlantis guy (he thinks Atlantis was in Indonesia) and an Ancient Advanced Civilization guy — as we say, a crackpot. And his paper is about to be retracted — for very good reason.