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RockyLeal t1_j5k264s wrote

Reply to comment by Unfiltered_Rabbit in Reassembling a 15th century ship: "The world's largest 3-D puzzle" by ArtOak

Only it's so very much not the biggest 3D puzzle. The reconstruction of Angkor Wat in Cambodia is orders of magnitude larger and more complex.

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ifsck t1_j5nk8om wrote

IIRC there was part of Bayon that had been cataloged and the stones from crumbled sections were marked and laid in adjacent open areas by an archeological team, then the records were lost during the Khmer Rouge regime. When I went in 2009 there were blocks with numbers everywhere but no one knew exactly where they went or how to fit them together again.

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