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The were made of stone, so well that many remain standing after nearly two and a half thousand years. The Parthenon would have still been standing if a moronic French artillery officer serving with the Venetian expedition against the Turks had not shown how smart he was by lobbing a shell through the roof of the Parthenon. It hit a Turkish gunpowder magazine located within the temple and blew much of it apart.

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