What I want to know is how they cut and transported massive blocks of marble back in the 1400's with no power equipment whatsoever. Michelangelo's "David" statue was carved out of a block weighing at least 40 tons, and transported from Carrara to Florence (Italy), a distance of some 80 or 90 miles over land.
@@raindropcleaners это не один блок притащить, их сотни тысяч, во всех городах, каждой страны, на каждом континенте. Я из России. Чтобы далеко не ходить за примером, назову тебе город Санкт-Петербург, вдоль которого протекает река Нива, вся набережная реки обложена с двух сторон гранитными блоками весом от 5 до 40 тонн. Это не небрежно накидано, это произведение искусства с идеальной геометрией. И это всего лишь малая часть мегалитической застройки города. Напомню, что по идеальным асфальтированным дорогам, в наше время, поездка тягоча от карьера в Карелии до города на Ниве занимает не меньше двух недель, а тогда никаких дорог не было). А объёмы добычи превышали сегодняшние на порядки. А теперь задумайся сколько людей, с верёвкой в руках, умерло бы на этой адской работе, без нормальных условий, питания и медикоментов и так далее... Конечно ты полагаешь, что тружеников у царя было безлимитное количество, пусть умирают. Кто будет служить в армии, сажать и убирать урожай, и ещё много ремёсел необходимых для жизни государства. У тебя близорукость, ты не видишь дальше своего носа. Рассуждаешь как слабоумный, ты уж прости за правду.
your just looking at big machines driving marble for an half hour.. I think its a shame cause a photo print is the same view..and cheaper. selling nature is pretty stupid
@All Cars Matter We use heavy machinery because we collect and process it in mass. I'm also not informed in what they did in the past but my guess is they were extracting it in small quantities, with a loooot more laber and people and over periods of many decades.
@All Cars Matter Ancient Greeks were using hot and cold water to break the marble and then they were cutting it with hammers and chisels to the shape the wanted. After that they were moving them with wooden crains and logs. With this equipment they could lift marble pieces which weighed about 20 tons
@@Screcy Ancient Greeks were using hot and cold water to break the marble and then they were cutting it with hammers and chisels to the shape the wanted. After that they were moving them with wooden crains and logs. With this equipment they could lift marble pieces which weighed about 20 tons. They were doing it fast too Parthenon for example took 7 years to build
@@tiktokcancerous9974 Nope. I’m a better driver than 99.999% of people and that’s a fact. Being impressed by this video is cute. I’ve worked with women who can do this job easily.
The only part of this that really surprises me is how the whole mountain seems to be one continuous and solid mass. There are no boulders or sudden changes in the material; the whole thing is just a monolith of the same material throughout.
@@mohammedalways358 you're imagining things. It's like looking at a cloud and seeing a rabbit. Why don't you see your creator in children starving in Africa, disease and the strife found throughout the world?
living in Greece i am surrounded by marbles, every house here has marbles, every single stair is lined with marble, our graves are made out of marbles! I have seen such trucks with huge stones on the street many times over the years but this is the first time i see the whole mountain been out of solid marble. I'm impressed.
@@Aeoxmusic some facts are that the ancient quarry that gave Acropolis marble isn't used nowadays, there is a nearby quarry though, the one that the video shows. Ancient Greeks used Kifisias road to transport the blocks downtown Athens from ancient Dionisos quarry. The last fact is that the marble today is identical to the ancient one and if you can afford the price, you can find some pure white without any kind of 'pattern' or 'waves' in it.
@@Aeoxmusic if you where non hellenic and climb up the parthenon they would behead you cuz parthenon was made for hellenes only now every race goes and sees the parthenon for money
@@makeart5070 absolutely exactly and one main reason is because diesel engines are the only ICEs that perform the best when under maximum load. Other than that the hydraulic system has so much headroom that it either lifts the tractor loader -if not the load itself, or simply just both balancing at the same. Freaking very awesome machines way past finding out wanton.
@@marvinjgerald6007 Yup, those diesel's are absolute workhorses, it can do the pulling and pushing. And the hydraulics on those lifters, i can't even imagine
Wow, it’s so weird seeing marble still in the ground. It looks so high quality and classy and it’s just sitting in the ground with machines driving over it.
@@nottheone582 yea? It’s just weird to see it actually in the ground because you never see it in this context and it’s always shown as this high class fancy thing.
@@nottheone582 We all know marble is "just rock". I think she means it's weird to see how finished the rock already looks while it's still in a mountain. It's basically instant end product, which is pretty cool.
As an architect, one of the immense pleasure of the profession is to get to look at stunning marbles from around thr world and use them to their full extent.
Dang that’s sick, it puts into perspective just how hard it was to make large scale marble structures in the past, not only making the structure but the process of obtaining and cutting marble in Greece and other countries
The mountain we extract marble in Athens is also not relatively near the center of city so it would have been a literal torture for the ancient Athenian slaves who carried it all the way to the Acropolis to build all the temples and stuff on it. And yes the ancient Athenians used the same mountain
@@DimitrisSartzetakis that’s what the official narrative wants you to believe that slaves did all this by hand with chisels and hammers, what if there was an advanced civilization that was more advanced than ours who built all those old-school type marble cathedrals that we call churches which were actually re-purposed and were something else, and what if we stole and got our technology from those past people and then advanced civilization who are making intricate marble statues and marble buildings with pillars and doorways that seem to be made for a human that was five times the size of your average human today, don’t believe everything the government tells you look into the lost history of earth and Tartarian architecture, there’s a reason why all those old buildings you see with pillars and spires, aren’t built today anymore because those weren’t built by us they were here from an old civilization there found all over the world in similar types of architecture World War I and two were carpet bombing campaigns to get rid of that kind of architecture that would show evidence that we didn’t build it and then they kept certain specific buildings like the White House and re-purposed them they are also most of the time partially underground, if you look at a lot of windows they’re halfway buried, look into mud flood and soil liquefaction, do you official narrative would tell you to believe for the most advanced society in the world but… If you’re open minded enough you might just learn something that will open your mind to a whole new perspective maybe you’ll take me later either way it is necessary but it is worth looking into Here try this for start.. ua-cam.com/video/RtU9P-L8-I8/v-deo.html
To be honest, not impossible, seen those videos of guys cutting giant rock with iron rods and hammers? It can be done, it's just not cost effective or efficient to do it today
@@Ayayron_e3 naw bro, you right but eating chunks out of a mountain is also destruing nature, I mean the scintist and war machines are fucked up as hell, but the damn bulldozers and drills are also war machines, if your like a tree or a mountian they are destrying you.
Marble is actually a product coming from the transformation process of a buried limestone in an environment of high pressure and excess temperature. What you see on the surface today used to be buried underneath while a high T zone will trigger the process of recrystallization. Tectonic forces will later force these blocks to ascent back to surface (orogenesis) as like earth wants to show off the beauty of our planet
@@Rikard416 I feel like that would make it so much more expensive. I mean, look at the equipment they're using here. Now go up an order of magnitude if you want to make a pressure vessel capable of handling both high temps and pressures required to basically *squish* stone. We have the tech to make small artificial diamonds, sure, but we aren't exactly going to throw an entire GDP at the wall to make big artificial diamonds, let alone marble slabs.
@@evermoreart we aren't so great, or ever will be, to destroy the planet. Earth will persist, thrive and cycle long after we're gone until it eventually meets it's demise along with our sun guttering out.
Точно сказано! Земля хочет показать свою красоту, а человек готов эту красоту уничтожить. Нет слов. Человечество безпредельно не разумно, коль так ведёт себя по отношению к природе.
Really its just rock, its just made out of limestone vs other minerals. We have a lot of Granite quarries in my area, but they are nowhere near as big as this. There is also an old limestone quarry but I guess it's not marbleized.
Sea shells piling up at the bottom of the sea, plate tectonics, pressure compacting the enormous pile of sea shells into a submarine mountain of marble. Eventually, due to the African continent plowing its way towards Europe, the under sea mountains came up above the surface, and that's the result. It's a pitty and a shame in my opinion. This is utter destruction of a pristine environment. Fascinating to see and sad at the same time.
@@ColdPillowz It would have been a pristine environment if the quarry was never there. When it rains rivers of white milky water flow down the side of the hills. Marble dust everywhere. The destruction I'm referring to is in that the side of the mountains are being eaten away. Once they are gone, they are gone for good. I bet they won't stop until it's a flat land.
@Not Me It is a simple task, performed well. I wouldn't want to have to back an excavator around those corners, even WITHOUT a block of marble and staying in sync with another driver.
A sad reflection on our society. People are selfish and don't care about the planet so long as they can have what they want. As a further thought, who would buy beef if it was half a cows head in cling film on a plastic tray in Asda. Still with an eye and half a jaw, with all the hair still on it. Nobody likes the reality behind anything.
@MadCar2 Productions honestly my take on it is because we’re Canadian and extremely privileged. it’s pushed so hard in the media that it’s 100% bad and has zero practicality behind it so instead of realizing the necessity of some things especially in certain parts of the world they skip that and act like it’s the only factor destroying the world.
@MadCar2 Productions it’s hard to get a real answer as the “conversations” always turn into extremely heated debates with other issues thrown on top like they obtain the issue we’re talking about. And in the end I’d much rather just be friends with them for the reasons we originally became friends no need to get into arguments over things we have zero possibilities on changing. Aslong as they respect me and don’t push my beliefs I will do the same back.
As an operator it takes years to get to that level. I've finished grade did and paved for 8 years and I can appreciate how smooth these boys are running. Few men can do this
@@lubo9364 it could be but the odds are so impossibly low in the cases are so too far in between they're calling them boys is an accepted general term cuz if you're working in a place where you can sneeze and fall 1500 ft you got to have something
@@lubo9364 As a Greek, I would assure you those were men and not women. The chances for having a woman there are very small. The only chance you would see a woman/girl operate it would be, IF (big if), the construction site was operated/owned from a family with long history, and the children / grandchildren were involved on daily operations.
My mind struggles to comprehend this. It does not even seem real! I guess I thought that marble slabs came from smaller “pockets” and not whole mountains. Fascinating!
Wow this is genuinely so cool. I never knew marble came from whole mountains made of marble!! When they tipped over the block they cut out of the mountainside in the beginning I held my breath but my goodness that stuff is strong
@@deanwilliams433 mountains? I just never knew this much of it could be found in the same place without other types of stone or soil in between. I thought that was clear from how I phrased it.
@@deanwilliams433 I don't know? Maybe because most stone quarries I've personally seen were comparatively small. I also know that metal and minerals exist in veins. That's as much context as I have. I don't deal with this stuff on a daily basis, I don't have theories for this, ok? Just came across something I don't usually think about, learned something new, thought it was cool. It's not that deep. I'm not trying to win a competition here on rock mining facts. Not for nothing but my most innocent comments really always get the most scrutiny. makes me sad
balls of steel! I run a smaller wheel loader and I can't imagine how you would do it synchronized like that with another driver. Im sure those two operators are best buddies
It really is. I drove loaders before. Going backwards along a wall while coordinating with a partner is no small challenge. You can see in the clip the driver of the front front-loader hugs the wall and scrapes along it to keep himself on course and not falling off the edge :) . Those balloon tires are perfect for wall-checking. This is the reality of front-loaders at work .. :)
Even geologists don’t get to see this on such a scale, unless working directly on site. Very cool. So gorgeous to see such homogeneous marble over such a vast area.
I love the big cat loaders. I can only imagine having to back up along that edge. I feel like if I did that once I would be relieved it was finally over but these guys do it again and again all day long! Props!
Honestly when I visited Greece I couldn't believe how much Marble was used in every day buildings. Pretty sure Marble is cheaper in Greece then most places around the World.
marble is actually very abundant in the middle east, specifically third world countries, that's why you see all these houses are built using different type of stones
Actually, the most amazing thing is that marble stone was formed millions of years ago. So when you look at the lines in marble on a counter top, those lines have been exactly the same since way before humans existed. Imagine what the earth looked like then and what the earth has been thru since that marble cooled and solidified🤯
I always think that about the average rock lying on the ground when you walk by. Like how old is the average rock sitting on the side of the road or below a tree?? One that you might pick up and throw across a field or lake???
No questions. It took much more time and needed a lot, lot more people.
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@@Malheirods The question he forwarded was "HOW?" Then, you jumped in like Mr. Know It All, but you didn't say SQUAT about HOW they did it! Just shut up if you don't know HOW they actually did it, kid!
@@Malheirods you didn't actually explain it you just made a reductionist statement. I don't think enough humans could fit around one of those blocks to begin to lift one end. even with some leverage from going under
Admire Greece... A tiny piece of land with huge treasures! The land itself is very rich, with some of the best quality products BUT thanks to the politicians, heavy industry is intentionally, almost, destroyed and as a result Greece exports all those products as raw material, and the countries that takes them presents what ever they make out of it as a quality product of THEIR own!!
Greece has no space for larger facilities and especially not large scale industries. They need every surface for farming so they can feed their population. Greece is very mountainous, so everything is going to be a lot more difficult. Tourism and trading are the key parts of Greek economy. Although the trading part is mostly imports, or transfering goods from one to another market. Politicians fucked up the trading part especially, because they didnt tax ship owning compenies, and rich people,... and well, they even didnt bother to tax ordinary people, too. A lot has changed in Greece by now. I hope they will recover, but these are hard times. Pandemic is going to ruin the other key part of Greek economy. And on the other hand, Greece has great ressources in the sea, but if they are going to extract them, Turkey is going to get mad.
@@Gentleman...Driver You're wrong NOT because i say so, BUT cause a simple examine of Greece' industrial past can speak loud about it! Trust me, its a sad, sad story, of which, i dont blame Europe etc BUT Greek politicians and their plans, which, when it comes to heavy industry, served other countries and NOT Greece(!) believe it or not! History do NOT lie nor the countless companies of the past, which were able to produce specific type of machines of better quality and price than Germany, England. even US! Its a long story and if you're not Greek, its hard to study it and find evidence about it. About taxes, its another huge story! When it comes to ship owners, they were mega-idiots to drive them OFF Greece, instead ok let them have their ships under Greek flag! Greek ship owners have the biggest fleet, even today, if im not wrong, and its a enormous financial power, and instead of allow them to work in their country, we drove them away! Why? If you find the anwer let me know pls! Why other countries welcome them, like England? They are stupid and Greeks were smart to drive them away?? Anyway... i beleve you understand my point...Things are simple when your only concern is how to make your country stronger!
@@primarchxi6639 I am Greek, but I live around the world (basicly every five years or so I am moving to another country because of my job). I can speak and read Greek, but not as good as English I fear.
I never even thought about it but I didn’t expect where marble comes from to look like this. Like a whole solid mountain of it with no other type of rock or anything anywhere in it
Seeing those 992 rear axle lift of the ground is scary, those machines are really really big like for me, the top of my head is only the half of the wheel
@@bmxscape lol. That's true but I've seen some crazy things move on flatbeds And once you. Have momentum going... The block has its own velocity and the truck stopping... You think the chain will hold it?
Greece is a land of philosophy and culture !!! The granite and white marble quarry in the village of Volakas in the prefecture of Drama in Macedonia is a work of art !!!
It's crazy, I'm 41 years old and never saw this before, you truly can't even see everything in a single lifetime, there is so much to see and learn, incredible.
I work for a countertop fabricator, what amazes me the most, is the fact that marble goes through ALL of this plus fabrication and people STILL have the nerve to complain about it's flaws. It's so beautiful, marble, granite, I love all natural stone ! I hope to visit a quarry someday, but this shall do for now, thank you for sharing!!
I do not understand why there is hate toward that game as I found it to be the best AC game I have played since AC2. I mean, who the hell can dislike romping around the ancient Greek world that has a few myths in it. Fools.
@@mspionage1743 I didnt like the RPG element of fighting and fighting power, but except for that it was my only AC and the story and characters are well done. Kassandras VA is really talented.
Not long ago, I worked in a company where they where working on stone slabs for making Kitchenplates, floors, tables, door entrys.... . And the machines there, where very big. So I can't really imagine how gigantic the machines for the blocks have to be. its very interesting to have a little marble plate in front of me while watching this enormous "Marble mountains"
I just love the look of this marble, so white and pure looking....I am sure that the Dorian Greeks were captivated, also. Since some of their artwork and architecture werre made of this beautiful stone.
Τώρα μπορείτε έστω και στο ελάχιστο να φανταστείτε γιατί είναι εκπληκτικά όλα αυτά που κατασκεύασαν οι αρχαίοι πρόγονοι μας χωρίς όλα αυτά τα μηχανήματα και με εκπληκτική τέχνη που ακόμα και σήμερα δεν μπορούμε να κατανοήσουμε. Εύγε
What a luxurious quarry - the whole floor is a super solid mass of marble. Imagine the wondrous fairy like sight if they polish it till it shines - the only breathtaking mountain beauty in the world.
It is fantastic to see all the process from a mountain or marble to the finish product ending up in our kitchen as a marble table or something else. Thank you.
This blew my mind. I thought it was made out of marble!! I can’t believe it’s just sitting there, so pure looking. I always thought a special cleaning process was needed in order to bring out that white. Amazed!
Best marble quality in the world. The sad fact is that they are sold to Italy and the Italians market them as "fine Italian marble" and are resold to the world as Italian marble and not Greek.
It's quite impressive how people can learn to use construction vehicles like they would their arms and legs. Some of the things I've seen people do with excavators is crazy.
An interesting fact about some of our quarries here in Greece - Many of those that were used to source marble for projects like the Acropolis and Parthenon are in operation to this day (I'm no expert in marbles, but to my eye this appears to be similar if not identical to the Pentellic Marble used on Parthenon). It's very interesting to see.
the quarries that the parthenon marble was extracted are not working to this day, they are long closed and it's prohibited to extract marble from Penteli , this quarry is at Dionysos. And i really can't understand how exactly your eye can see what marble is this ? do you even know what types of marble are been extracted in Greece? ( i don't even know why you had to make up all this nonsense )
It's so weird to think that there are mountains sitting in nature that are made out of high quality marble countertop.
Aren't these usually covered by dirt and trees, therefore the average human walking through, wouldn't know what's up.
Exactly
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Same thing with gold, I suppose.
"high quality marble"
We created that idea out of nowhere...it is just a rock that we name and sell for high prices because yes
The way the drivers are operating in sync with each other is pretty impressive alone.
What I want to know is how they cut and transported massive blocks of marble back in the 1400's with no power equipment whatsoever. Michelangelo's "David" statue was carved out of a block weighing at least 40 tons, and transported from Carrara to Florence (Italy), a distance of some 80 or 90 miles over land.
@@MrPLC999 a rope, a lot of people and constant rollers underneath
@@raindropcleaners это не один блок притащить, их сотни тысяч, во всех городах, каждой страны, на каждом континенте. Я из России. Чтобы далеко не ходить за примером, назову тебе город Санкт-Петербург, вдоль которого протекает река Нива, вся набережная реки обложена с двух сторон гранитными блоками весом от 5 до 40 тонн. Это не небрежно накидано, это произведение искусства с идеальной геометрией. И это всего лишь малая часть мегалитической застройки города. Напомню, что по идеальным асфальтированным дорогам, в наше время, поездка тягоча от карьера в Карелии до города на Ниве занимает не меньше двух недель, а тогда никаких дорог не было). А объёмы добычи превышали сегодняшние на порядки. А теперь задумайся сколько людей, с верёвкой в руках, умерло бы на этой адской работе, без нормальных условий, питания и медикоментов и так далее... Конечно ты полагаешь, что тружеников у царя было безлимитное количество, пусть умирают. Кто будет служить в армии, сажать и убирать урожай, и ещё много ремёсел необходимых для жизни государства. У тебя близорукость, ты не видишь дальше своего носа. Рассуждаешь как слабоумный, ты уж прости за правду.
Humans are special species. We are intelligent. This is normal
@@MrJhuncon if we were that intelligent we wouldn't be killing each other.
that was quite interesting to watch, you don't get to see this unless you work at a marble quarry or get lost on youtube 😅
your just looking at big machines driving marble for an half hour.. I think its a shame cause a photo print is the same view..and cheaper. selling nature is pretty stupid
@@sjondeeg7158 you have the extended version, or is your brain so slow?
or doing remodeling at home 😁
@@dennist.8018 Let's just ignore the "your" instead of, well you know.....
So true, I have no idea what I am doin here... Lost on the internet again
Woah, never expected it to be that fine and naturally clean. No wonder ancient Greece used it everywhere.
@@theothercreare wowee
@All Cars Matter We use heavy machinery because we collect and process it in mass. I'm also not informed in what they did in the past but my guess is they were extracting it in small quantities, with a loooot more laber and people and over periods of many decades.
@All Cars Matter Ancient Greeks were using hot and cold water to break the marble and then they were cutting it with hammers and chisels to the shape the wanted. After that they were moving them with wooden crains and logs. With this equipment they could lift marble pieces which weighed about 20 tons
@@Screcy Ancient Greeks were using hot and cold water to break the marble and then they were cutting it with hammers and chisels to the shape the wanted. After that they were moving them with wooden crains and logs. With this equipment they could lift marble pieces which weighed about 20 tons. They were doing it fast too Parthenon for example took 7 years to build
@@Screcy *labour
Even the quarry for marble looks like art.
It looks like art, because it is an art. 🙌🏼
Exactly..
Created by the One and Only Almighty God, That has no sons no partner no family.
GOD'S ART
@@ax3226 depending on which denomination you subscribe to.
Driving the wheel loaders backwards while keeping the block balanced between the other wheel loader on a narrow road is super impressive
I felt very uneasy watching that :)
I’d love to have that job. Piece of cake
@@patstaysuckafreeboss8006 you would crash the loader
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@@tiktokcancerous9974 Nope. I’m a better driver than 99.999% of people and that’s a fact. Being impressed by this video is cute. I’ve worked with women who can do this job easily.
That's amazing I had no idea a whole mountain can be pure marble. It's beautiful
The fuck did u think marble came from ..?
@@apapz3245 Don’t call people stupid because they lack knowledge.
A whole mountain that is made up of billions upon billions of dead plankton and other tiny "animal" shells.
@@apapz3245 Did you not read? He/she said "pure marble". I was surprised aswell of the seemingly lack of impurities
@@comradecameron3726 who did I call stupid ? And why are you so offended?
As a Greek, I have to thank you for showing a lesser-known activity in our country! Well done!!! 👍
I totally concur with you Doctor.
every thinks greeks just sit around drinking coffee and eating food
Being known for the Gyro isn't all that bad, lol.
Marble is probably a top 3 thing Greece is known for, next to democracy and bankruptcy
@@PeterTeal77
Only if we were known for our oil and natural gas...
And rare earth minerals...
The only part of this that really surprises me is how the whole mountain seems to be one continuous and solid mass. There are no boulders or sudden changes in the material; the whole thing is just a monolith of the same material throughout.
That is exactly what’s so surprising about this
This Says a lot ABout our Creator
The one and only Lord of Everything ....
Signs are everywhere .... only BLESSED eyes are required to see .....
@Mohammed Always
does it?
@@tacitozetticci9308 I hope you are not blind ?
@@mohammedalways358 you're imagining things. It's like looking at a cloud and seeing a rabbit. Why don't you see your creator in children starving in Africa, disease and the strife found throughout the world?
The geometry and white brightness of the quarry is actually stunningly beautiful...
We don’t need that racist energy here
You litteraly are working on marble
@@perfectplayingplaids lol, you got me there!!!
You know the product is beautiful when even the mine looks good.
the Greek name for Greece (Hellas) literally means "Bright Rock"
living in Greece i am surrounded by marbles, every house here has marbles, every single stair is lined with marble, our graves are made out of marbles! I have seen such trucks with huge stones on the street many times over the years but this is the first time i see the whole mountain been out of solid marble. I'm impressed.
My brother-in-law and sister have marble balconies and marble stairs in Greece they are so beautiful.
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Fun fact: Parthenon in Acropolis was made from the quarry in Penteli and even today produces the same quality of marble.
@@Aeoxmusic some facts are that the ancient quarry that gave Acropolis marble isn't used nowadays, there is a nearby quarry though, the one that the video shows. Ancient Greeks used Kifisias road to transport the blocks downtown Athens from ancient Dionisos quarry. The last fact is that the marble today is identical to the ancient one and if you can afford the price, you can find some pure white without any kind of 'pattern' or 'waves' in it.
@@Aeoxmusic prostitutes in ancient hellas used to wear sandals that had carved on the bottom the words "follow me "so you know they were prostitutes
@@Aeoxmusic if you where non hellenic and climb up the parthenon they would behead you cuz parthenon was made for hellenes only now every race goes and sees the parthenon for money
Looked like every machine at the quarry was just about at their capacity!
Most efficient that way
@@makeart5070 absolutely exactly and one main reason is because diesel engines are the only ICEs that perform the best when under maximum load. Other than that the hydraulic system has so much headroom that it either lifts the tractor loader -if not the load itself, or simply just both balancing at the same. Freaking very awesome machines way past finding out wanton.
IMAGINO A FORTUNA 🤑🤑QUE DEVE VALER ESSA MONTANHA⛰
@@marvinjgerald6007 Yup, those diesel's are absolute workhorses, it can do the pulling and pushing. And the hydraulics on those lifters, i can't even imagine
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The sheer size of the marble blocks are astonishing. They have cut mountain into pieces to transfer. Amazing
I think they lost to much energy on this stupid process, we really need it? I know how they can do it making energy at the same time
@@marcosprivado how?
@@marcosprivado nah who cares?
@@hanhdhsj you can generate electricity with the weight
@@marcosprivado How is that going to be efficient in any way?
Wow, it’s so weird seeing marble still in the ground. It looks so high quality and classy and it’s just sitting in the ground with machines driving over it.
It looks like you're watching the construction of the world's largest bathroom.
@@CeruleanFilms ngl this made me laugh 😂😂😂
you know that marble is just rocks right?
@@nottheone582 yea? It’s just weird to see it actually in the ground because you never see it in this context and it’s always shown as this high class fancy thing.
@@nottheone582
We all know marble is "just rock". I think she means it's weird to see how finished the rock already looks while it's still in a mountain. It's basically instant end product, which is pretty cool.
As an architect, one of the immense pleasure of the profession is to get to look at stunning marbles from around thr world and use them to their full extent.
Architecture is indeed beautiful!
You mean steal them
@@nationalsocialist5526 ?? What are you on about?
@@Getoffmyhair robbing nature of its resources for a pretty surface to add to your house or business.
@@Aeoxmusicman stfu if we don’t use the resources this beautiful earth offers they go to waste you know that ?
Dang that’s sick, it puts into perspective just how hard it was to make large scale marble structures in the past, not only making the structure but the process of obtaining and cutting marble in Greece and other countries
It would seem that there will be government edifices, high end kitchens and baths, museum floors and Chinese cutting boards f-o-r-e-v-e-r...
@@thomastrout9997 true
The mountain we extract marble in Athens is also not relatively near the center of city so it would have been a literal torture for the ancient Athenian slaves who carried it all the way to the Acropolis to build all the temples and stuff on it. And yes the ancient Athenians used the same mountain
@@DimitrisSartzetakis wow
@@DimitrisSartzetakis that’s what the official narrative wants you to believe that slaves did all this by hand with chisels and hammers, what if there was an advanced civilization that was more advanced than ours who built all those old-school type marble cathedrals that we call churches which were actually re-purposed and were something else, and what if we stole and got our technology from those past people and then advanced civilization who are making intricate marble statues and marble buildings with pillars and doorways that seem to be made for a human that was five times the size of your average human today, don’t believe everything the government tells you look into the lost history of earth and Tartarian architecture, there’s a reason why all those old buildings you see with pillars and spires, aren’t built today anymore because those weren’t built by us they were here from an old civilization there found all over the world in similar types of architecture World War I and two were carpet bombing campaigns to get rid of that kind of architecture that would show evidence that we didn’t build it and then they kept certain specific buildings like the White House and re-purposed them they are also most of the time partially underground, if you look at a lot of windows they’re halfway buried, look into mud flood and soil liquefaction, do you official narrative would tell you to believe for the most advanced society in the world but… If you’re open minded enough you might just learn something that will open your mind to a whole new perspective maybe you’ll take me later either way it is necessary but it is worth looking into
Here try this for start..
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greece is a gifted land, the landscape, the richness of the earth and the culture is all in another level.
too bad they screwed their economy
That statement can be applied to so many other places Greece isn't exclusive 😂
@@youwantshum9860 yeah but when I think of stupid inflation i think of Greece, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
I prefer Turkey (tryna start an argument)
@@slapmynutz roach gang
It's amazing to think the ancients did this with only primitive methods
I don't think it was all that primitive,study it enough and you find that what we learned in school is bs
To be honest, not impossible, seen those videos of guys cutting giant rock with iron rods and hammers? It can be done, it's just not cost effective or efficient to do it today
yeah the ancient greeks had motorized saws and excavators its crazy what they keep out of the curriculums these days
Yes, but all the same the ancients would have been amazed to see the speed and scale of modern mining and machinery.
And slaves
The only thing that surprised me is how a channel with 1 million subs couldn't afford a narrator and instead opted with a cheap text to speech bot.
Maybe because they're Greek and figured the Bot would be more understandable to more people.
Otherwise, it'd be all Greek to me.
@@oldad6207 This channel isn't Greek lol.
Even if it was, it is not difficult to hire a native English speaker, only a few clicks and an email away.
For all the people that talk about ancient greece, imagine that those marbles needed to be moved to Acropolis and on different places without trucks
Horse and carriage
@@Bruceillest101 Whip and slave
@@acidfrogs10 There were no slaves in Greece
@@JORGELAZARIDIS7 spartans had slaves
slaves are cheap bro
Didn't know marble existed like this but obviously lol... so beautiful 😳
So beutfil the destruction of Earth!!!
@@prophecyrat2965 Nah.. destruction of earth is what scientists do in labs and countries going to war with each other.. that's the real destruction.
@@Ayayron_e3 naw bro, you right but eating chunks out of a mountain is also destruing nature, I mean the scintist and war machines are fucked up as hell, but the damn bulldozers and drills are also war machines, if your like a tree or a mountian they are destrying you.
Yup same here!
@@prophecyrat2965 And trees grow back. These mountains take millions of years to come up. Its sad.
The machines look like toys by the side of the huge marble walls! So amazing!
Marble is actually a product coming from the transformation process of a buried limestone in an environment of high pressure and excess temperature. What you see on the surface today used to be buried underneath while a high T zone will trigger the process of recrystallization. Tectonic forces will later force these blocks to ascent back to surface (orogenesis) as like earth wants to show off the beauty of our planet
is it possible to create marble from limestone artificially then? That would make it so much cheaper
@@Rikard416 I feel like that would make it so much more expensive. I mean, look at the equipment they're using here. Now go up an order of magnitude if you want to make a pressure vessel capable of handling both high temps and pressures required to basically *squish* stone. We have the tech to make small artificial diamonds, sure, but we aren't exactly going to throw an entire GDP at the wall to make big artificial diamonds, let alone marble slabs.
@@pcblah Exactly. The energy spent to simulate the pressure and temperature environments would multiply the cost at least a million of times
@@evermoreart we aren't so great, or ever will be, to destroy the planet. Earth will persist, thrive and cycle long after we're gone until it eventually meets it's demise along with our sun guttering out.
Точно сказано! Земля хочет показать свою красоту, а человек готов эту красоту уничтожить.
Нет слов.
Человечество безпредельно не разумно, коль так ведёт себя по отношению к природе.
The only quarry in the world that still looks beautiful in the excavation process. So perfect.
Not Himalayan pink salt? I think the pink salt is beautiful in the caves
Oh my...I had no clue you found marble in quantities like this!! That's blowing my mind. Now on a mission to find out how marble is formed in nature.
Really its just rock, its just made out of limestone vs other minerals. We have a lot of Granite quarries in my area, but they are nowhere near as big as this. There is also an old limestone quarry but I guess it's not marbleized.
Sea shells piling up at the bottom of the sea, plate tectonics, pressure compacting the enormous pile of sea shells into a submarine mountain of marble. Eventually, due to the African continent plowing its way towards Europe, the under sea mountains came up above the surface, and that's the result. It's a pitty and a shame in my opinion. This is utter destruction of a pristine environment. Fascinating to see and sad at the same time.
@@tuscanland i like your explanation but what is a pristine environment?
@@ColdPillowz It would have been a pristine environment if the quarry was never there. When it rains rivers of white milky water flow down the side of the hills. Marble dust everywhere. The destruction I'm referring to is in that the side of the mountains are being eaten away. Once they are gone, they are gone for good. I bet they won't stop until it's a flat land.
@@tuscanland ohh relax there tons of nature out there
I have never seen such skilled excavator drivers!!!
They are worth every € they earn of their salary!!!
Well done.
Probably they're getting 700/10 hours because mitsotaki gamiesai
The excavator work is basic
@Not Me It is a simple task, performed well. I wouldn't want to have to back an excavator around those corners, even WITHOUT a block of marble and staying in sync with another driver.
@Not Me Oh, my apologies.
@Not Me lol I'd say so considering I made the same mistake
The Greeks gave the world civilisation and culture.
It’s funny how many friends I have that are totally against mining of all sorts but love marble and diamonds.
Just like ppl who hate corporations shop at Walmart
A sad reflection on our society. People are selfish and don't care about the planet so long as they can have what they want. As a further thought, who would buy beef if it was half a cows head in cling film on a plastic tray in Asda. Still with an eye and half a jaw, with all the hair still on it. Nobody likes the reality behind anything.
Hypocrites are everywhere. For them, rules and orders are made for others to follow.
@MadCar2 Productions honestly my take on it is because we’re Canadian and extremely privileged. it’s pushed so hard in the media that it’s 100% bad and has zero practicality behind it so instead of realizing the necessity of some things especially in certain parts of the world they skip that and act like it’s the only factor destroying the world.
@MadCar2 Productions it’s hard to get a real answer as the “conversations” always turn into extremely heated debates with other issues thrown on top like they obtain the issue we’re talking about. And in the end I’d much rather just be friends with them for the reasons we originally became friends no need to get into arguments over things we have zero possibilities on changing. Aslong as they respect me and don’t push my beliefs I will do the same back.
As an operator it takes years to get to that level. I've finished grade did and paved for 8 years and I can appreciate how smooth these boys are running. Few men can do this
Could be woman , you never know :)
@@lubo9364 it could be but the odds are so impossibly low in the cases are so too far in between they're calling them boys is an accepted general term cuz if you're working in a place where you can sneeze and fall 1500 ft you got to have something
@@timobatana6705 I see what you mean 👍🏼
@@lubo9364 As a Greek, I would assure you those were men and not women.
The chances for having a woman there are very small.
The only chance you would see a woman/girl operate it would be, IF (big if), the construction site was operated/owned from a family with long history, and the children / grandchildren were involved on daily operations.
@@lubo9364 stop trying to impress. Just stop.
My mind struggles to comprehend this. It does not even seem real! I guess I thought that marble slabs came from smaller “pockets” and not whole mountains. Fascinating!
Wow this is genuinely so cool. I never knew marble came from whole mountains made of marble!! When they tipped over the block they cut out of the mountainside in the beginning I held my breath but my goodness that stuff is strong
Can see many blocks that broke from that
I'm not trying to be mean, but where did you think marble came from?
@@deanwilliams433 mountains? I just never knew this much of it could be found in the same place without other types of stone or soil in between. I thought that was clear from how I phrased it.
@@FJ-rh6io why would other rock be between them? You should see where granite comes from too.
@@deanwilliams433 I don't know? Maybe because most stone quarries I've personally seen were comparatively small. I also know that metal and minerals exist in veins. That's as much context as I have. I don't deal with this stuff on a daily basis, I don't have theories for this, ok? Just came across something I don't usually think about, learned something new, thought it was cool. It's not that deep. I'm not trying to win a competition here on rock mining facts. Not for nothing but my most innocent comments really always get the most scrutiny. makes me sad
1:56 - Can we all just stop for a moment to appreciate the coordination between those two drivers?
balls of steel! I run a smaller wheel loader and I can't imagine how you would do it synchronized like that with another driver. Im sure those two operators are best buddies
It's actually not that hard. The skills of the operators was nothing all that special
@@HarryGoulding hahaha. Have you ever worked construction
These boy could not work in Chinada unless they are fully vaccinated -> 10+ doses.
@@thenarrator1984 where are your videos? Lets see your skillzzz
As a granite miner, the skill involved with the front end loaders and even the loading process of the haul truck is nothing short of amazing.
putting only one chain when loaded on the trailer takes a lot of skills too, but I guess it's not going far.
@@ΙωάννηςΛέπουρας How big of a kitchen counter top do you need?
they over load these things so hard, back tires arent supposed to BOUNCE lmao
It really is. I drove loaders before. Going backwards along a wall while coordinating with a partner is no small challenge. You can see in the clip the driver of the front front-loader hugs the wall and scrapes along it to keep himself on course and not falling off the edge :) . Those balloon tires are perfect for wall-checking. This is the reality of front-loaders at work .. :)
@@johngreydanus2033 well i mean it weights a fuck ton if that block wants to move no chains are going to stop it
Even geologists don’t get to see this on such a scale, unless working directly on site. Very cool. So gorgeous to see such homogeneous marble over such a vast area.
The Akropolis was build with this Material
@@Willburys get out of town
Nature endowed Greece with the best quality marble. Ancient creations are preserved to this day!
It's crazy to imagine that this whole process was once done without modern machinery
Especially since they also could make huge blocks 2000 years ago. not as huge as these, but still very large.
Ancient technology was waaaay ahead of its time. We can only dream about it...
@Dan Trebune they did with man MANY slaves, and sophisticated math and science
@Dan Trebune And if you have 20 such lines, it can be done in 1 year. Make it 40 and you can do it in 1 year working only in day time.
@@Billswiftgti The pyramids were built by volunteers, expert craftsmen and engineers.
I love the big cat loaders. I can only imagine having to back up along that edge. I feel like if I did that once I would be relieved it was finally over but these guys do it again and again all day long! Props!
After a while they probably get used to it….That doesn’t make it any less terrifying the first time…
@@mq5731 Ofc, for them it's nothing special anymore.
They make bank doing it tho
Shit was crazy
Really enjoyed this video
Gives me a whole new respect for the people that mined marble thousands of years ago. Just with brute man force.
Nah they had machines and technology. Example is the pyramids
@@gregburger9595 ???? LMAO 😂😂😂😂
@@gregburger9595 fr they be flying helicopters made out of reeds and limestone
@@gregburger9595 Evidence seems to point to Egyptians having the ability to form blocks in the way we form cement.
@Favel Konefka. It's a theory that makes more sense than dragging the stones imo.
Honestly when I visited Greece I couldn't believe how much Marble was used in every day buildings. Pretty sure Marble is cheaper in Greece then most places around the World.
marble is actually very abundant in the middle east, specifically third world countries, that's why you see all these houses are built using different type of stones
Its high quality and no its not cheap for us also
The marble is very expensive and here in Greece but is beautiful
It’s pretty expensive here in Greece but it’s part of our architecture
well if you want something to last, you use marble. i don't understand how americans build their houses out of wood and compressed paper.
Actually, the most amazing thing is that marble stone was formed millions of years ago. So when you look at the lines in marble on a counter top, those lines have been exactly the same since way before humans existed. Imagine what the earth looked like then and what the earth has been thru since that marble cooled and solidified🤯
>>> 6,000 years
@@dixieboy5689 no.
I hope I remember that the next time I look at marble, or anything else old like that.
@@Hopeful1s >>> The Bible says 6,000 years.
I always think that about the average rock lying on the ground when you walk by. Like how old is the average rock sitting on the side of the road or below a tree?? One that you might pick up and throw across a field or lake???
They unintentionally created a Greek palatial masterpiece 🙂
Imagine hundreds of years ago, you were just exploring the area around your house and find this beautiful white mountain in the middle of the forest
I wouldn;t be white, it would be covered with a small layer of dirt and shrubs and trees.
@@Blackadder75 I saw some comments that the quarry was already used in ancient time, but you are definitely right about the time before that :)
Seeing what it takes in modern era to move such massive blocks, one has to question how the ancients did it.
No questions. It took much more time and needed a lot, lot more people.
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@@Malheirods The question he forwarded was "HOW?" Then, you jumped in like Mr. Know It All, but you didn't say SQUAT about HOW they did it! Just shut up if you don't know HOW they actually did it, kid!
Ancients had no Internet, so they had a lot of free time for it.
@@Malheirods you didn't actually explain it you just made a reductionist statement. I don't think enough humans could fit around one of those blocks to begin to lift one end. even with some leverage from going under
Admire Greece... A tiny piece of land with huge treasures! The land itself is very rich, with some of the best quality products BUT thanks to the politicians, heavy industry is intentionally, almost, destroyed and as a result Greece exports all those products as raw material, and the countries that takes them presents what ever they make out of it as a quality product of THEIR own!!
Greece has no space for larger facilities and especially not large scale industries. They need every surface for farming so they can feed their population. Greece is very mountainous, so everything is going to be a lot more difficult. Tourism and trading are the key parts of Greek economy. Although the trading part is mostly imports, or transfering goods from one to another market.
Politicians fucked up the trading part especially, because they didnt tax ship owning compenies, and rich people,... and well, they even didnt bother to tax ordinary people, too.
A lot has changed in Greece by now. I hope they will recover, but these are hard times. Pandemic is going to ruin the other key part of Greek economy.
And on the other hand, Greece has great ressources in the sea, but if they are going to extract them, Turkey is going to get mad.
@@Gentleman...Driver You're wrong NOT because i say so, BUT cause a simple examine of Greece' industrial past can speak loud about it! Trust me, its a sad, sad story, of which, i dont blame Europe etc BUT Greek politicians and their plans, which, when it comes to heavy industry, served other countries and NOT Greece(!) believe it or not! History do NOT lie nor the countless companies of the past, which were able to produce specific type of machines of better quality and price than Germany, England. even US! Its a long story and if you're not Greek, its hard to study it and find evidence about it.
About taxes, its another huge story! When it comes to ship owners, they were mega-idiots to drive them OFF Greece, instead ok let them have their ships under Greek flag! Greek ship owners have the biggest fleet, even today, if im not wrong, and its a enormous financial power, and instead of allow them to work in their country, we drove them away! Why? If you find the anwer let me know pls! Why other countries welcome them, like England? They are stupid and Greeks were smart to drive them away?? Anyway... i beleve you understand my point...Things are simple when your only concern is how to make your country stronger!
@@primarchxi6639 I am Greek, but I live around the world (basicly every five years or so I am moving to another country because of my job). I can speak and read Greek, but not as good as English I fear.
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I never even thought about it but I didn’t expect where marble comes from to look like this. Like a whole solid mountain of it with no other type of rock or anything anywhere in it
Imagine that this also happened 5000 years ago when Egyptians quarrying granites
Even more so if you consider that granite is much more difficult to quarry because it's harder than marble.
and with copper tools too....
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@@oingpla they used flint on the granite
@@Martinit0 The majority of the pyramid was limestone, not granite. Only 1/5th of 1% of the pyramids was made of granite
Amazing! Imagine how all the ancient monuments were built without those machines? One wonders
they look like toys. amazing!
Seeing those 992 rear axle lift of the ground is scary, those machines are really really big like for me, the top of my head is only the half of the wheel
That's what I was thinking. Jesus christ the weight then that one chain holds the block on the flatbed? Lol
@@thenarrator1984 gravity holds it on the flatbed mostly lol
@@bmxscape lol. That's true but I've seen some crazy things move on flatbeds
And once you. Have momentum going... The block has its own velocity and the truck stopping... You think the chain will hold it?
Greece is a land of philosophy and culture !!!
The granite and white marble quarry in the village of Volakas in the prefecture of Drama in Macedonia is a work of art !!!
"Was" is the correct verb patrioti.
That is amazing!!!
It’s just wild to think people in ancient times were working with this stuff without any of this equipment
It's crazy, I'm 41 years old and never saw this before, you truly can't even see everything in a single lifetime, there is so much to see and learn, incredible.
Just wait until you see what's on Mars
@@jasonsummers6705 - I've seen most of what has come back from Mars, lots of rocks, it's very cool though.
4:00 is pretty incredible watching these huge machines tip forward like a puppy drinking water
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I work for a countertop fabricator, what amazes me the most, is the fact that marble goes through ALL of this plus fabrication and people STILL have the nerve to complain about it's flaws.
It's so beautiful, marble, granite, I love all natural stone ! I hope to visit a quarry someday, but this shall do for now, thank you for sharing!!
So satisfying, imagine if ancient greek made an underground city like cappadocia. This would be amazing 😀
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Is Cappadocia underground? Didn’t know
@Kerim Temel cool. Thanks
i work in construction and i have to admit these loaders driver are very skilled
Oh yeah, we like luxury in our mine. We build our retaining walls out of marble
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Great! ✌️🇬🇷
Am I the only one who thought the thumbnail was a bathtub with toys at first ….
Is that minecraft
seen this in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, guess it's the modern quarry version here xD
I do not understand why there is hate toward that game as I found it to be the best AC game I have played since AC2. I mean, who the hell can dislike romping around the ancient Greek world that has a few myths in it. Fools.
@@mspionage1743 Because people are derps
@@mspionage1743 I didnt like the RPG element of fighting and fighting power, but except for that it was my only AC and the story and characters are well done. Kassandras VA is really talented.
Shoutout too the champ who has to drive backwards on that narrow edge!
Not long ago, I worked in a company where they where working on stone slabs for making Kitchenplates, floors, tables, door entrys.... . And the machines there, where very big. So I can't really imagine how gigantic the machines for the blocks have to be. its very interesting to have a little marble plate in front of me while watching this enormous "Marble mountains"
This is so incredible. I am amazed at how perfect and pristine the marble is right after excavation. The earth is truly a magical place 😱
You can truly appreciate the power of hydraulics on those loaders
Let's fill that entire quarry up with water for a stunning marble swimming pool !
I just love the look of this marble, so white and pure looking....I am sure that the Dorian Greeks were captivated, also. Since some of their artwork and architecture werre made of this beautiful stone.
That's got to be the prettiest quarry I've seen! Thank you, God, for giving this earth such beautiful resources
Which god are you talking about? Zeus? :P
And thanks for all the diseases, natural disasters, suffering of humans and animals, etc.
(Avoiding cherrypicking.)
Haha you really think god put it there?...
Perfect documentary video.
Marble a CAT 🇺🇲 mega tons 💪👊👍
Little Ants in making ❤❤
Watching this makes the Ancient marble structures even more impressive. 👍
Τώρα μπορείτε έστω και στο ελάχιστο να φανταστείτε γιατί είναι εκπληκτικά όλα αυτά που κατασκεύασαν οι αρχαίοι πρόγονοι μας χωρίς όλα αυτά τα μηχανήματα και με εκπληκτική τέχνη που ακόμα και σήμερα δεν μπορούμε να κατανοήσουμε. Εύγε
Respect
What a luxurious quarry - the whole floor is a super solid mass of marble. Imagine the wondrous fairy like sight if they polish it till it shines - the only breathtaking mountain beauty in the world.
Sangat keren 👍👍
These drivers have incredible skill. I'm happy when I nail parallel parking.
hhaahaaaaha very nice comment
That reverse driving front end loader driver has my utmost respect!
Amazing technics and the way the entire hill is been cut in a organized way is applaudable.
*Is this how the pyramids were built in Egypt?* 🤔
I don't think pyramids (in egypt) were built with marble...
This is wild. I've never thought of how marble was mined but I would've never imagined this. Thanks for sharing very cool. 👍
This Marble Quarry is one of the most upscale places in the world, as even the dirt and dust is made of snow-white marble! Wow!
That must be awesome to be a worker there on site and have not just ordinary dust, but *marble* dust in your lungs.
I love classic marble sculptures. One of the most beautiful things to see in a art museum.
Super interesting. Never seen this before. Thanks
It is fantastic to see all the process from a mountain or marble to the finish product ending up in our kitchen as a marble table or something else. Thank you.
Wow… amazing.. I guess I never thought about what a marble quarry would look like…but this is quite astonishing
I love how blocky and minecrafty everything is.
It's oddly satisfying.
Didn’t know marbles were made like this 🤯
Incredible that you have that much marble in a single location...amazing
This video is amazing! The most beautiful things are from nature, thank you for showing us the process of how marble is processed.
This blew my mind. I thought it was made out of marble!! I can’t believe it’s just sitting there, so pure looking. I always thought a special cleaning process was needed in order to bring out that white. Amazed!
Amazing that people have been harvesting it since Roman and Greek times, and they still haven't scratched the surface.
Best marble quality in the world. The sad fact is that they are sold to Italy and the Italians market them as "fine Italian marble" and are resold to the world as Italian marble and not Greek.
It's quite impressive how people can learn to use construction vehicles like they would their arms and legs.
Some of the things I've seen people do with excavators is crazy.
An interesting fact about some of our quarries here in Greece - Many of those that were used to source marble for projects like the Acropolis and Parthenon are in operation to this day (I'm no expert in marbles, but to my eye this appears to be similar if not identical to the Pentellic Marble used on Parthenon). It's very interesting to see.
very cool thanks for sharing
the quarries that the parthenon marble was extracted are not working to this day, they are long closed and it's prohibited to extract marble from Penteli , this quarry is at Dionysos. And i really can't understand how exactly your eye can see what marble is this ? do you even know what types of marble are been extracted in Greece? ( i don't even know why you had to make up all this nonsense )
That was my first thought when watching this.
Awesome…thanks…that’s mad trippy that they’re still in operation
the marble block in the 2nd clip is in my bathroom now! It has the same exact crack
It's amazing to notice how the marble background makes look such a dirty and dusty work so elegant and clean.
Wow God's beauty is everywhere. That was awesome to see, huge quarry
It’s crazy, I’m 13 and had no idea mountains could be made of marble. So crazy I’m still learning such new exciting things