Google Maps/Earth geoservice family has powerful tools for studying the relationship between the localization of objects scattered around the globe. This feature allowed us to establish an unusual connection between two megalithic complexes - Gunung Padang (Indonesia) and Machu Picchu (Peru, South America). Results presented in the research “On the relative location of the Gunung Padang and Machu Picchu megalithic complexes” (Russian text, English abstract).
Gunung Padang in Java Island is a huge complex that pretend to be World’s oldest pyramid. It is also often characterized as ‘Indonesian Machu Picchu’ due to evident similarity between two complexes.
Strangely, their connection is much deeper. As Google Earth has revealed, two unique complexes are located on exactly opposite sides of The globe - on meridians 180 degrees apart. The discrepancy is a tiny 44 km - nothing compared to the distance between them of 17,800 km.
This strange feature has no satisfactory explanation at the moment.
Cite as:
Baturin Yu, Eremchenko E (2019) On the relative location of the Gunung Padang and Machu Picchu megalithic complexes (Russian). Geocontext. Vol. 7 N.1 pp. 19-26.
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Thank you for this interesting information @EugeneProtvino .
I have some knowledges about many inexplicable relations between the ancient civilisations, but I didn’t know about this strange similarity. I know about similarity of the rock paintings, for example, inexplicable because of distance between different civilisations.
Best wishes,
Liliana Solomon
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Dear @LiliSol ,
thank you for your reply and thought-provoking suggestions. I agree with impossibility to explain strange spatial similarities, but this Google Earth/Maps inspired area of research looks promising. Up to now we unveiled only one direct opposition of cultural heritage objects, mentioned in same Russian article - Easter Island (Pacific) is direct antipode of ancient City Mohenjo-daro (Pakistan) with excellent accuracy. Of course, these relationships are unexplainable now. Studying of global spatial distribution of rock painting in different scales looks promising as well; if you are interesting in this kind of interdisciplinary research, please let me know in private )
Sincerely,
Eugene Eremchenko
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Thank you @EugeneProtvino ., I will 
Regards,
Liliana Solomon
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Hi @EugeneProtvino ,
Thanks for sharing this information with the community.
I just wanted to say that I’ve noticed that your post has a Russian language label. Please note that I’m going to remove the label because you didn’t use the Russian language.
Please take a look at the How do I find posts in my preferred language? article, where you can find how to use language labels and search for posts in your preferred language.
@MashaPS , thank you for improving metadata of post. I agree with your proposal. I select “Russian” intentionally, because image annotations are Russian; I guess it is good idea to provide possibility to mark posts as a bi-lingual, for example.
