Help Sitemap Home Skip Navigation Contact Us Disability Statement

 
 
Tuesday, 13th May 2008

Premium Article !

Your account has been frozen. For your available options click the below button.

Options

Premium Article !

To read this article in full you must have registered and have a Premium Content Subscription with the The Scotsman site.

Subscribe

Registered Article !

To read this article in full you must be registered with the site.

Sign In
Register

'Caesar's superglue' find



Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image
Click on thumbnail to view image

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.



The full article contains 143 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.
Page 1 of 1

  • Last Updated: 04 December 2007 10:02 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: The Romans
 
1

Conan,

Moffat 05/12/2007 03:44:38

Aye, fat'll cure just about anything. Mmmmmm ....... fat ...... drool.

2

The Daleks,

05/12/2007 05:31:21

I didn't know that Christ had settled on the River Rhine.

3

Prester John,

Pots_n_Pans 05/12/2007 07:06:04

#2

Journalists' quality of writing (and editorial grasp of English) is not what it used to be.

4

Dave from Barra ©,

Western Isles 05/12/2007 08:06:11

It was birch pitch/tar used in this country by the first settlers 7,000 years ago. Used to glue stone tips to arrow heads and archeological finds have discovered that the bonding properties are still good, even after 7,000 years.

So wooop-de-dooo regarding Romans etc.

5

Boy Wonder,

05/12/2007 09:37:24

#4. I wonder if that's where they got the name as the hunter/gatherers passed round the bucket to each other ... when one of them wanted to use it, he'd just shout "Yoo-hoo!" ???

6

Dave from Barra ©,

Western Isles 05/12/2007 10:43:47

5

Brilliant! he he he he!

7

SLCAS,

Iowa 05/12/2007 21:20:59

In response to The Daleks / 5:31am 5 Dec 2007

Christ did not have to settle or live anywhere near the Rhine. The article says, which makes total sense that the helment was Roman, originally from Italy. As you should have learned in a history class, or in reading, the Romans settled and took over a majority or Europe and part or Asia. The conquered much of the known world at that time. They lived in Great Britton and the middle east, all over. All it took was one helmet. It could have fallen there, or been taken from another location at any time since it was found.

8

Henry De Tamble,

05/12/2007 22:26:39

SLCAS, Iowa

Um...It was a joke.A play on words.

Whereabouts in Iowa are you from?

9

Boy Wonder,

05/12/2007 23:13:47

#7. Captain Kirk is from Iowa. The diff between him and you is that one's fictional and the other, a total moron.


 

Comment on this Story

 

In order to post comments you must Register or Sign In

 
 
RSS Feed of this article's comments
Delivery formats: RSS, Atom, Javascript & Email
 
  

 
 


Sister Newspapers:
Press Complaints Commission

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the PCC by clicking here.