The Evolution of Marble Extraction Techniques
Apr 12, 2019· The Pantheon and the Trajan''s Column in Rome are built of Carrara Marble. A famous saying of Augustus is: "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble" ("Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepi").Many sculptures of the Renaissance (the David from Michelangelo, amongst many others) were also carved in marble blocks extracted from the Carrara''s quarry.
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