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There seems to have been some technology available until pretty recently at whose nature I could not even guess. Further, it seems to be beyond even the two most commonly advanced "fringe" proposals: advanced cutting tools and the liquefaction of stone.
The Veiled Virgin
18th-Century Sculpture Has a Delicate Net Carved Out of a Single Block of Marble
With those examples, suppose we gave a sculptor a scalpel like a light saber. Could such sculptures be created without a flaw showing a slip of the light scalpel? Hard to believe they could.
Even stranger is a marble sculpture of a little girl wearing a linen shift. (I don't have a link but it was shown in one of Sylvie Ivanowa's videos.) When you look very closely, the weave of the linen has been replicated. There's also a small flaw on her arm, and close inspection reveals it's not a defect in the marble, but replicates a tiny scar in her skin. Why would any sculptor do such a thing?
And I mean, fucking-A, it's not just that no one can create sculptures like these any more, and it's not just that no one tries, but no one even wants to fucking talk about it.
Almost like they scanned a girl and then used a laser based 3D printer?
Bizarrely, there is actually evidence of 3D scanning, or at least evidence very suggestive of such a thing. I found the original video and Sylvie talks about the statue starting at 8:55:
"Impossible" statues, "Impossible" ancient jewellery, Moscow nuked, (old version)
I highly recommend watching the entire video, and also any other of her work you can get your hands on. One of the very best researchers out there. You'll be left shaking your head at what has been lost (that is to say, stolen from us).