Marble Museum

Marble, a crystalline solid rock formed by the metamorphosis of limestone, is a formation of calcite and dolomite minerals. The presence of other minerals in differing amounts affects both physical properties and colour, 120+ kinds in Greece.

Quarying methods ⛏️ largely stayed as per Greek antiquity until the 1950s, with quarrymen exploiting natural fissures to extract the massive block. Along the fissures, they fit iron wedges sandwiched between iron splints. Pounding on these wedges with iron-headed mallets as well as pushing on levers inserted elsewhere eventually releases the block.

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