3-102-090 - Ware in the World/Heritage Images

The Slate Quarries, Syracusa, Sicily, c1970s. Worked by 'The Tyrants'. The Latomia dei Cappuccini, one of the oldest in Syracuse, is notorious as the place where seven thousand Athenians were forced to work after they had been defeated by the Syracusans in the 5th century BCE. Many of the Athenians they died from malnutrition and exposure. The first stone cutters appear to have been active in the sixth century BCE.