Roman lime plaster floor, pavimentum, opus signinum, nucleus or pavimentum babaricum are synonyms for a composition flooring made of lime mortar with crushed bricks and c [...]

Eleven hydraulic concretes from ancient Roman harbours around the Mediterranean seacoast were drilled by the Romacons team in 2002–2009. In 2008–2009 the same team ex [...]

A new fast-setting cement, called Roman cement, appeared recently in the market. To identify the possibilities of using it in the field of cultural heritage, it is import [...]

In southern Portugal over one hundred Roman villae have been identified; such villae are examples of typical Roman rural construction and have led to the characterisation [...]

The definition of the composition, the technological process and, last but not least, the provenance of the raw materials of historical mortars is still difficult and uns [...]

Euboea island in central Greece is considered to be an interesting place concerning its cultural heritage. Yet, it has a substandard level in managing its cultural reserv [...]

Constructed in 330-320 B.C., the stadium at Nemea, consists of the race track, the seating area, the vaulted entrance tunnel and the “Apodyterion”. The tunnel was dis [...]

Constructed in 330-320 B.C., the stadium at Nemea, consists of the race track, the seating area, the vaulted entrance tunnel and the “Apodyterion”. The tunnel was dis [...]

Representative samples of 14th century fresco paintings (renders and colour layers) from various Serbian monuments (Byzantine influence sphere) were examined, characteriz [...]

Renders and plasters have been continuously used for covering the masonry walls of dwellings even from the Neolithic period. This paper focuses on the analysis and charac [...]

Bulk samples of mortars were collected from Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine historic constructions. The main scope of this work is to investigate the technological tran [...]