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What's always impressed me is the expense borne by ancient Roman and Greek civilization to use such durable building materials, like marble. As the article not
by CryptoPunk 6y ago
What's always impressed me is the expense borne by ancient Roman and Greek civilization to use such durable building materials, like marble.
As the article notes, even the first buildings in Rome, in the archaic period, used the distictively Roman red terra cotta bricks.
- adamjb 6y agoThis is a rather textbook example of survivorship bias
- CryptoPunk 6y agoYes, there's probably a major element of that giving me this impression. However, we have a lot of surviving Roman structures compared to Celtic or Germanic structures, for example. 3D reconstructions of ancient Rome show a city that relies heavily on stone, concrete and marble in its construction: https://youtu.be/8Wuwa3UllKA https://youtu.be/8Wuwa3UllKA Though this too could be a consequence of survivorship bias.