Back in those times, nobody had the experience or practice to make the things they painted look realistic. They didn’t really have the years of experience of people before them to go off of. Also, they probably had quite limited tools.
Life span, the period of time between the birth and death of an organism.
Long before concrete made its appearance on the building scene in Rome, the Romans utilized a volcanic stone native to Italy called tufa to construct their buildings. Although tufa never went out of use, travertine began to be utilized in the late 2nd century B.C.E. because it was more durable.
