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They were a copy of the Egyptian columns which were originally tied bundles of papyrus stems. In Greece the columns were originally wooden, then as they moved to stone buildings, they were made of round drums of stone stacked up, with a top of one of the three designs - Corinthian, Doric and Ionian.

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