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'Caesar's superglue' find
The Scotsman ^
| 05 Dec 2007
| The Scotsman
Posted on 12/04/2007 6:32:34 PM PST by BGHater
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Germany have found a 2,000-year-old glue Roman warriors used to repair helmets, shields and the other accessories of battle.
"Caesar's superglue" - as it has been dubbed by workers at the Rhine State Museum in Bonn - was found on a helmet at a site near Xanthen on the Rhine River where Romans settled before Christ.
Frank Welker, a restorer at the museum, said: "We found the parade cavalry helmet had been repaired with an adhesive that was still doing its job.
"This is rightly called some kind of superglue because air, water and time have not diminished its bonding properties. We haven't mixed up a batch ourselves yet, but we can thoroughly reccommend it - it lasts, after all, for 2,000 years."
The adhesive was made from a mixture of bitumen, cattle fat and bark pitch.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: adhesive; ancientconcrete; ancientrome; archaeology; caesar; concrete; freepun; glue; godsgravesglyphs; pozzolana; pozzolano; romanconcrete; romanempire; superglue
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I wonder if they had a battlefield glue like we used in Vietnam for wounds as well.
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:32:36 PM PST
by
BGHater
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:32:59 PM PST
by
BGHater
(Lead. The MSG for the 21st Century.)
To: BGHater
Furniture made in China sure could use that glue. Stuff tends to fall apart.
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:35:48 PM PST
by
SatinDoll
To: BGHater
“This is rightly called some kind of superglue because air, water and time have not diminished its bonding properties. We haven’t mixed up a batch ourselves yet, but we can thoroughly reccommend it - it lasts, after all, for 2,000 years.”
Who would have guessed that my wife's secret meatloaf recipe was handed down from the Romans?
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:36:56 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(The faithful will keep their heads down, their powder dry and hammer at the enemies flanks.)
To: BGHater
...at a site near Xanthen on the Rhine River where Romans settled before Christ. I wasn't aware that Christ ever settled at a site near Xanthen on the Rhine.
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:38:24 PM PST
by
lesser_satan
(READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON - DUNCAN HUNTER '08)
To: BGHater
To: BGHater
A certain irony, as I recall from the History Channel that one of the biggest problems with the Me-262 was the poor quality of German adhesives.
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:42:16 PM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
To: BGHater
Ecclesiastes 1:9
nothing new under the sun.
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:44:50 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: lesser_satan
I wasn't aware that Christ ever settled at a site near Xanthen on the Rhine. It says it right there in black-and-white. "... where Romans settled before Christ." Must have got there only a few days prior! *snicker*
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posted on
12/04/2007 6:51:34 PM PST
by
TexGuy
To: BGHater
To: lesser_satan
I wasn't aware that Christ ever settled at a site near Xanthen on the Rhine.Wonder if it is close to Xanten? Lots of Roman stuff there.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:02:06 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: BGHater
Lamp oil being a pH germ killer was used in ancient times without knowing it killed germs because they didn’t know germs existed. Wounds healed and people lived when they used the lamp oil.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:03:05 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: MHGinTN
That, and Honey worked wonders.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:04:18 PM PST
by
BGHater
(Lead. The MSG for the 21st Century.)
To: BGHater
The adhesive was made from a mixture of bitumen, cattle fat and bark pitch.
Facetiously, wait till we find out the Romans were making an
adhesive that was made of "Buckyballs" (those 60-carbon spheres).
OK, it probably doesn't make "Buckyballs"...but I suspect research
on this old glue is the start of a number of PhD theses!
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:08:07 PM PST
by
VOA
To: VOA
And they’ll be more useful than 99.99% of all Womyn’s Studies PhDs.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:12:39 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: BGHater
“a site near Xanthen on the Rhine River where Romans settled before Christ”
Christ had a place on the Rhine? The things you learn on FR.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:14:38 PM PST
by
toddlintown
(Five bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss..)
To: SatinDoll
Use some Gorilla glue...i like the stuff.
To: chasio649
Use some Gorilla glue...i like the stuff.It's okay for some applications but it turns yellow, and it expands horribly. Also, it does not hold porous things that are going to get wet--for instance, it will let go of wood if the wood gets wet, even briefly.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:24:55 PM PST
by
Fairview
( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
To: VOA
Well there would be a lot of carbon in the ingredients specified.
Romancrete is also quite strong, as strong or stronger than some modern forms of concrete.
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:26:55 PM PST
by
ikka
To: crazyhorse691
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posted on
12/04/2007 7:28:11 PM PST
by
skr
(How majestic is Thy Name, O Lord, and how mighty are Thy Works!)
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