Travel & Holidays

Borobudur: the world’s largest puzzle with 2 million interlocking stones

Rising on the green plains of Central Java, Borobudur is commonly described as the biggest Buddhist temple on this planet. Yet beyond its religious and architectural identity, Borobudur will also be understood as something astonishingly mechanical: a huge three-dimensional puzzle fabricated from roughly two million interlocking stones. Without mortar, cement or modern machinery, ancient builders assembled this monumental structure with...