Before the huge marble and stone campus sprang up - with its vast courtyards and a nod to Arab aesthetic in the arched windows and geometric mosaics - it was largely sand dunes.

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Leading the project to restore David is the Opificio Delle Pietre Dure, Italy's premier restoration institute for stone and marble.

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She replaced them with stone, marble and various hardwoods.

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In China, marble is called Dali stone.

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Grieving mothers shaped from marble lay prostrate on the lids of stone caskets.

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The glass-enclosed steam shower is big enough for two and is made of rare stone and tiles imported from around the world golden onyx, French marble with deep chocolate veining and Italian pearlized mosaic tiles.

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