Researchers are analyzing 4,000 Roman stamped bricks from Trier to uncover insights into ancient construction, economy, and urban development using both archaeological and scientific techniques.Goethe University Frankfurt?
Researchers are analyzing 4,000 Roman stamped bricks from Trier to uncover insights into ancient construction, economy, and urban development using both archaeological and scientific techniques.Goethe University Frankfurt?
I’m reading Western history in the USA lately. The mining boom town of Aurora, CA was founded, grew, prospered and died all in about five years. There weren’t many trees in the Eastern Sierra, so brick plants were built and a lot of the town was built out of brick.
It would be a wonderful brick ghost town to visit...EXCEPT in the 1920s and 1930s, used brick became a highly prized building material in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Pacific Palisades, and Malibu. Many of the mining boom town brick buildings in the Sierras were torn down, but the old brick still lives on in homes in So Cal (at least those still standing after the fires).
Unfr,ated but kinda similar and Interesting- not many people realize but Sadam tried rebui,ding Babylon, pouring vast amounts of money into it, Restoring so e parts of it. He had bricks made with his inscription on them, and he bekeived he was the reincarnated king nebuchzdnezzar, and even had his name on some too, and money mi Ted with both their names on it.
Anyway, here is a blurb about it if anyone is Interested in another. Rick story about history;
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/latest-news/article24438259.html
Trier, birthplace of Karl Marx when it was part of the Kingdom of Prussia. I had no idea it was originally a Roman city.
So you ride yourselves over the fields
and you make all your animal deals
and your wise men don’t know how it feels
to be thick as a brick.
No doubt called that because it was built by black Africans.
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