yeah it was definitely a thing that sadly lived on (here in sweden at least) up until early 1900's. It's happened that people who's renovated really old houses and cottages has found old mummified cats and dogs in their walls :|
yeah it was definitely a thing that sadly lived on (here in sweden at least) up until early 1900's.
Most roman concrete structures weren't built with this "super-concrete" and they didn't last very long at all. That all surviving roman concrete structures show these traits is survivorship bias at work.
It's more like they randomly got it right in a few cases and those were the buildings that endured.
That article is really making its rounds. It's also kind of misleading. Most roman concrete struct
