Ancient settlement village of ancient Mataram was lost in this earth because buried for centuries due to eruption of Mount Sindoro.
His condition reminds us of the Pompei City that was destroyed by the mountain of Vesuvius in 79 AD For 1600 years the ancient city like Rome was only a legend, until later found again in the 19th century AD
Likewise with Liyangan, the excavations and archeological research we have done slowly have managed to show the faces of these ancient settlements whose complexes of material deposits that buried it have been pyroclastic footprints or hot clouds of Sindoro allegedly erupted 1000 years ago.
Bemmelen, he was a Dutch researcher, he said that in 1600 - 1617 Sindoro once erupted with terrible and terrible and devastated the villages that are at his feet. This is what is thought to have buried this Liyangan Site as deep as 10 meters below ground level.
While the Archeology Center of Yogyakarta concluded, the destruction of civilization caused by the eruption of Mount Sindoro very terrible that occurred around the year 971 AD.