The very first jigsaw puzzle is said to have been made by London mapmaker John Spilsbury in the 1760s. "He pasted a map onto a thin piece of wood, and he used a scroll saw to cut it up ...

Thousands of fragments of plaster are pieced together to reveal frescos from a Roman London villa.

Solving modern-day jigsaw puzzles is often about piecing together ... events recorded in the Old and New Testament," 1815 "England and Wales : with the principal roads and distances of the county ...