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The ancestry of greek and roman columns are fascinating. People tend to think of the white marble ones, but many of the temples were adorned with beautiful colored marble columns. These were sourced from throughout the empire and conquests. A good book or guide can outline much of greek, roman, and islamic history using columns alone.

the aqueducts and sisterns ander various currently habitated ancient cities are sometimes supported by forests of even more ancient columns and what we see today in areas where marble was the building material of choice is the stuff that escaped the lime kilns,where mountains of ancient statuary and architectural marble, was burnt to make lime, to put on the fields of those living in the abandoned cities littering the ancient world and the fate of bronze statuary and architectural elements, was of course the same as the lead roofing, as a target for plunder and to be recast and rededicated to a new god

“Greek fire(1) can’t melt Corinthian columns”

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire

What a fantastic idea. You should absolutely write this.