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To: colorado tanker

That structure’s interesting because the roof is basically one giant stone, probably the largest ever used in construction in Italy, and maybe anywhere. The Romans quarried some single-piece 200 ton columns in Egypt and transported them by ship to Rome for some temples, that’s the only things that come close.


37 posted on 04/12/2011 5:07:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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Oh, the Baalbek stones are much bigger than this, and technically they’ve *been* used in construction, but their original purpose remains unknown, and they’ve had stuff built on top of them, I mean, wth else are ya gonna do with ‘em?


38 posted on 04/12/2011 5:09:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: SunkenCiv
Those Ostrogoths had stones, all right.
40 posted on 04/14/2011 12:48:48 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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