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I'm watching a talk from the Met youtube channel about types of marble used in medieval Italy. Several of the types of marble used have high numbers of fossils in them. What did people in the medieval period think the fossils were and how they had been caused or formed?

by /u/MitziHunterston in /r/AskHistorians

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