An extensive complex of quarries for opencast and underground extraction of the famous Parian marble, the so-called Paria Lithos, was developed in Marathi in antiquity (mainly from the 7th century BC onwards). Today it is known that the quarries covered a vast area that included, in addition to the most famous quarries of the Nymphs and Pan, the underground quarries in Spilies, and the areas of surface extraction on the hill of Lakki and at Thapsana.
