Curated category
Pavements
- ConcreteConcrete floors appeared in the royal palace of Tiryns, Greece, dating to 1400 BC. Lime mortars were used in Crete and Cyprus by 800 BC.
- GravelA single grain of gravel measures between two millimeters and sixty-four millimeters across. This specific range separates it from sand below and cobbles…
- Roman concreteThe harbor of Caesarea in Roman Judaea rose from the sea between 22 BC and 15 BC. Massive quantities of pozzolana arrived from Puteoli to build its…
- MosaicIn the second half of the 3rd millennium BC, workers in Mesopotamia laid colored stones and shells into plaster to create patterns at a temple building in…