The Evolution of Marble Extraction Techniques
#0183;#32;The Pantheon and the Trajan''s Column in Rome are built of Carrara Marble. A famous saying of Augustus is: quot;I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marblequot; (quot;Marmoream relinquo, quam latericiam accepiquot;).Many sculptures of the Renaissance (the David from Michelangelo, amongst many others) were also carved in marble blocks extracted from the Carraras quarry.