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Thanks. I only spot watched. Edit: I had no clue that lathes existed <1000 BC. But now that I think of it, how else would they have made such ~perfect stone c

Thanks. I only spot watched. Edit: I had no clue that lathes existed <1000 BC. But now that I think of it, how else would they have made such ~perfect stone columns.

varjag 8y ago
Stone columns of antiquity weren't turned on a lathe.
- mirimir 8y ago
  OK, maybe I jumped to an unwarranted conclusion. So when did builders start turning columns on lathes?