2011/10/24 by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Physics and Astronomy · #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History #Archaeology and Historical Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Popular Physics (physics.pop-ph) #Water management and technologies #physics.hist-ph #physics.pop-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1110.5230
Materials science, Concrete, Caementum
arxiv created 2011/10/24 · openalex publication_date 2011/10/24 · arxiv updated 2011/10/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It is commonly believed that the ancient Romans were the first to create and use concrete. This is not true, as we can easily learn from the Latin literature itself. For sure, Romans were able to prepare high-quality hydraulic cements, comparable with the modern Portland cements. In this paper, we will see that the use of concrete is quite older, ranging back to the Homeric times. For instance, it was used for the floors of some courts and galleries of the Mycenaean palace at Tiryns