We created this simulation to help you understand how the ancient Greeks used to work. The Greek and Roman slaves placed wooden wedges into the cracks, similar to those called “cugnoli”: they soaked them in water, the wood then expanded, which caused the cracks to split and they removed the blocks. Afterwards, still deep in the underground using only three tools — a hammer, a chisel and a small hatchet called a smarra — they were fashioned into parallelepiped blocks. The larger ones were used for the walls of the city, and the smaller ones for the city’s buildings.
