the aqueducts and sisterns ander various currently habitated ancient cities are sometimes supported by forests of even more ancient columns and what we see toda

the aqueducts and sisterns ander various currently habitated ancient cities are sometimes supported by forests of even more ancient columns and what we see today in areas where marble was the building material of choice is the stuff that escaped the lime kilns,where mountains of ancient statuary and architectural marble, was burnt to make lime, to put on the fields of those living in the abandoned cities littering the ancient world and the fate of bronze statuary and architectural elements, was of course the same as the lead roofing, as a target for plunder and to be recast and rededicated to a new god