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Another case of the arrogance of modernity: "Only WE can have a good quality of life. Nobody was happy before Xanax."

When, in reality, our bodies and minds have been genetically the same for hundreds of thousands of years. Same brains. Same desires. Is it any surprise that Romans lived good lives when they could?

Near one of the villages where the quarry workers lived there's a Roman-era well (the Romans were first to find/mine the Porphyrites and Claudianus quarries) which is still used by the nomads passing through. Somewhat related topic:

Quarry, Setting and Team Marks: The Carian Connection

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On Bloggers & Personal 10/08/2004 3:20:42 PM PDT · 1 reply · 41+ views

University of Leiden (Netherlands) | 1998 | (about) Sheldon Lee Gosline
In this paper, the author proposes some specific attributions for signs deriving from the Carian or another West-Anatolian script found on in situ blocks from standing walls: quarry, block positioning, or team marks. The proposals are based on data from three distant yet related sites where such marks have been preserved, among which the Khnum temple terrace on Elephantine. In time, however, the quarry marks at Elephantine do not correspond with the other two sites. Therefore, the author proposes that the terrace was built several hundred years earlier than the Graeco-Roman Period to which the terrace is usually dated, or...

Quarry, Setting and Team Marks: The Carian Connection
	Posted by SunkenCiv On Bloggers & Personal 10/08/2004 3:20:42 PM PDT · 1 reply · 41+ views University of Leiden (Netherlands) \| 1998 \| (about) Sheldon Lee Gosline In this paper, the author proposes some specific attributions for signs deriving from the Carian or another West-Anatolian script found on in situ blocks from standing walls: quarry, block positioning, or team marks. The proposals are based on data from three distant yet related sites where such marks have been preserved, among which the Khnum temple terrace on Elephantine. In time, however, the quarry marks at Elephantine do not correspond with the other two sites. Therefore, the author proposes that the terrace was built several hundred years earlier than the Graeco-Roman Period to which the terrace is usually dated, or...