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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 4378861, member: 75143&quot;]From what I&#039;ve read, in the post-Roman age the mythos surrounding sculpted porphyry was nearing the magical realm.</p><p><br /></p><p>People genuinely thought that the ancients worked some kind of voodoo magic in order to carve the stone. And every pope, Medici, and aristocrat wanted some of that magic in their hands too. And so, countless priceless artifacts were shattered, sliced, broken, and otherwise mutilated in order to release that magical power.</p><p><br /></p><p>Something that has always seemed absolutely magical to me are the mechanical automatons of the 19th and 18th centuries. </p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]a3agwmbuZKM[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>How can something like this have been made by human hands??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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