Marble floors are beautiful.

A 16 year old quarry worker.

Gudule didn't notice she was walking along a quarry.

They're supported by these enormous marble bases.

Marble terraces, stainedglass windows.

Then he showed the marble baths and the beds with peculiar spring mattresses.

May I be the first to welcome you to these halls, young lady?

So the bones were moved from the cemeteries into the quarries, making them into the catacombs.

From there the road swerved north to Capua, where, for the time being, it ended.

It includes many rare statues, as well as stone and marble sarcophagi.

Two marble tablets representing the Ten Commandments and a marble Star of David were also shattered.

Less than ten years after the completion, heavy marble tiles started to fall off from the facade.

And then, and in these massive fragments of what were the originally marble Corinthian capitals.

We've lost his original, but we have a later marble of the discuss thrower.

His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

The initial plans called for wooden construction, but were changed with the discovery of a source of good quality stone locally.

White marble pylons against the blue sea... for me it's a timeless symbol of Ancient Greece, he wrote years later.

almost always when we are looking at greek sculpture we re looking at roman carvings, we aare looking at marble copies of what had once been bronze. but bronze is expensive.and it is reusable. so 2000 years after these objects were made, there is ample opportunity for it to be melted down.but once in a while we find a greek original. we are

Quarries The main quarries of Ollantaytambo were located at Kachiqhata, in a ravine across the Urubamba River some 5 kilometers from the town.

The Utah State Capitol Building offers marble floors and a dome similar to that of the building that houses the U.S. Congress.

As I'm looking at this remaining piece of the Forum of Trajan, I'm seeing some large marble fragments that are clearly the parts of a column.

I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.

Actually, some of the first work, in terms of shaping the stone, might actually be done at the quarry. Dr. Harris That way you're not transporting extra weight, since it's, of course, very hard to move.

It was cast in bronze and when we're in the museums, what we're looking at mostly are Roman copies in marble of what were bronze sculptures made by the Greeks.

Some troops were unable to evacuate and fought the Germans at Adzhimushkay until the end of October of the same year, with no significant stocks of food, water, medicine, arms, or ammunition.

A lot of the things that we think of as typical Greek sculpture in marble are actually Roman copies in marble of the Greek bronze.

It was in 1950 that a controlled explosion was carried out on the southeastern side of the Zlatý kůň Hill, following which workers discovered the entrance to a cave in the quarry wall.

In conclusion, I should refer briefly to the remarks made by the Permanent Representative of Greece about the works of art known as the Elgin Marbles.

The furnishing includes a wood carving of the crucifixion of Christ from the end of the 13th century which is the most precious work of art in the church, as well as Baroque marble altars.

The cemetery had been confiscated at the beginning of the Iranian Revolution, at which time the mortuary and memorial hall were demolished, the marble grave coverings were removed and all grave site markings obliterated.

It consists of four parts three are marble and thereon are inscribed the names of the 166 residents from the city who have lost their lives during of World War I, the Balkan Wars, and World War II.