DENPASAR: Construction workers in Bali have discovered what is
thought to be the biggest ancient Hindu temple ever found on the
Indonesian island, archaeologists said. The workers were digging
a drain in the island’s capital Denpasar at a Hindu study centre
when they came across the remains of the stone temple. They
reported the discovery to the Bali archaeology office, which
then unearthed substantial foundations of a structure that the
excavation team believes dates from around the 13th to 15th
centuries. “We think this is the biggest ancient Hindu temple
ever discovered in Bali,” Wayan Suantika, the head of the team,
said late Wednesday. He said the excavation was still in
progress and the team did not yet know whether enough stones
would be unearthed to allow them to reconstruct the temple. The
construction workers on Sunday found the first stone one metre
(yard) underground, which was one metre long, 40 centimetres (16
inches) deep and 40 wide, said Ida Resi Bujangga Wisnawa Ganda
Kusuma, owner of the Hi