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The Eruption of 79 A.D. Froze a Work in Progress in Pompeii, and the Piles of Living Lime and Pozzolan Revealed that Romans Added Water only After Mixing the Materials Dry
The analysis of Roman concrete materials in Pompeiia revealed valuable secrets about the engineering of Antiquity. Found in preserved construction sites clearly demonstrate that the builders mixed the living lime and the dry pozzolan before adding water to the compound. What the eruption of 79 A.D. revealed about the works in... The post The eruption of 79 A.D. froze a work in progress in Pompeiia, and the piles of living lime and pozolan reveal…
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The analysis of Roman concrete materials in Pompeiia revealed valuable secrets about the engineering of Antiquity. Found in preserved construction sites clearly demonstrate that the builders mixed the living lime and the dry pozzolan before adding water to the compound. What the eruption of 79 A.D. revealed about the works in... The post The eruption of 79 A.D. froze a work in progress in Pompeiia, and the piles of living lime and pozolan reveal…