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The first marble monument:
The Artemis Temple in Ephesus
One of the Seven Wonders of the World the Artemis Temple (4th century B.C.), is the first monument built from marble. The one among the “Seven Wonders of the World” was built in Halicarnassus in the Greco-Persian style for the Karia Satrap Mausoleum Along with this the Zeus and Athena altars in Bargama (2nd century B.C.), the Apollo Temple and the giant Kalaros statues in Didyma are examples of masterpieces on which architecture and sculpting are blended. Urban architecture and sculpture continued to develop during the Archaic,Classical and Hellenistic Ages and reached its pinnacle in the 2dn century B.C.
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THE AGES OF THE HISTORY OFMANKIND IS SET DOWN IN STONES
Mankind has always lived in intimate relation with stone. Even when the beginning of history and the ages are narrated, these ages were always identified with names referring to stone. During the stone and metal ages people have always used tools to sustain their lives by working the stone. In other words, they have found sustenance through stone which is a material just like the fire, the water and the air. They made their living, in essence the bread to eat,through the stone. It is not only hand tools of course, that are found in archeological excavations and believed to have been made around 25 thousand B.C.; the figu- rine, such as the symbol of fertility stylizing a woman’s anatomy in an exaggerated manner was against made from stone.Art too has started to show its face by being performed, again on stones. After the paintings drawn on cave walls with the aid from the Neolithic Age, such as the figurines excavated from Çatalhoyuk in the vicinity of today’s city of Konya. A painting on the walls of the Lascaux Cave discovered in France was made on 13 thousand B.C. If we were to look at the history on a numeric line ruler and take the adventure a little into the future to the period when writing was found we would again see that the cuneiform script developed by the Sumerians was inscribed on a block of stone. In short, stone has always been connected to the life of the manual. In other words,we can understand the history of mankind by following stones.
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