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When you see the massive columns in Artemis and Didyma it make an old engineer wonder. Columns 2.5 meters wide and 28 meters high. How could the ancients manufacture with the precision needed? Moreover how could the erect such massive columns? How could they hoist the friezes to sit on top?

by /u/endlessbull in /r/AskHistorians

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