Research into a Neolithic settlement called Motza revealed the earliest known use of dolomitic lime plaster. The Motza plaster predates the better-known Roman plaster by 8,000 years, rewriting the ...
Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster fragments, with no picture on the box to guide them. Fragments of painted ...