GUNUNG Jerai in Kedah was once touted as a hermit kingdom. Seeking solitude to attain religious discipline and knowledge, hermits would head up to this mountain to meditate in tranquillity.

While Guinness World Records officially lists the Djoser Step pyramid in Egypt as the world’s oldest pyramid (around 2,630 BC), one paper published in October claimed a layer of the Gunung Padang ...