Geopolymer Institute

Geopolymer ‘99, 2nd Int. Conf. on Geopolymers
The making of Etruscan ceramic
(Bucchero Nero) in VII-VIII century B.C.
(Fabrication de céramique Étrusque
(Bucchero Nero) au VII-VIII siècle av. J.-C.)
by
Frédéric Davidovits (1), Alessandro Nasso (2),
Joseph Davidovits (3)
(1) Université de Caen, France
(2) Universita di Udine, Italy
(3) Geopolymer Institute, Saint-Quentin, France
( in English, en Français )
The results obtained with LTGS [...]

IXth Egyptology Congress, Grenoble, 2004
Construction des pyramides d’après Hérodote:
Etude lexicologique des termes grecs krossai et bomides
dans Hérodote (II, 125) : étymologie égyptienne ou grecque ?
by
Frédéric Davidovits*
( in French, en Français )
Hérodote (II, 125) au début de son texte sur la construction de la pyramide de Khéops utilise krossai et bômides, mots rarissimes dans la littérature [...]

IXth Egyptology Congress, Grenoble, 2004
Why Djoser’s blue Egyptian faience tiles are not blue?
Manufacturing Djoser’s faience tiles
at temperatures as low as 250°C?
by
Joseph Davidovits and Ralph Davidovits
30,000 blue faience tiles were found in Djoser’s funerary complex at Saqqarah (3. dynasty). It is generally assumed that the tiles underwent a self-glazing process during firing in the range of [...]

A la recherche du Carbunculus (searching for Carbunculus)
by Frédéric Davidovits, Université de Caen
published in Revue Voces, Vol. 5, pp. 33-46 (1994),
( in French, en Français )
Abstract in English:
Carbunculus, as described by Vitruvius (2, 4, 1; 2, 6, 6; 8, 1, 2), is a mineral used like a pouzzolana, which, when added, yields a very good [...]

Les mortiers de pouzzolanes artificielles chez Vitruve:
évolution historique et archirtecturale
DEA thesis by Frédéric Davidovits,
université de Nanterre – Paris X, 1993
( in French, en Français )
Contrairement à ce que l’on croit généralement, les sables employés dans les mortiers dits hydrauliques chez les romains sont de nature pouzzolaniques car d’origine volcanique. Des archéologues comme [...]

Fabrication of stone objects, by geopolymeric synthesis, in the pre-incan Huanka civilization (Peru)
Joseph DAVIDOVITS and Francisco ALIAGA
Abstract of a paper presented at the 21st International Symposium for Archaeometry, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA, 1981 (page 21).
It is now agreed, that the TIHUANACO civilisation is modeled on the pre-incan HUANKA civilisation revealed by an extraordinary [...]

Vth Egyptology Congress, Cairo, 1988
The Famine Stele and the construction of Pyramids with man-made stone
by Joseph Davidovits
Egyptologists have long claimed that no records exist which describe how the Pyramids were built. A stone stela is engraved on a rock at the island Sehel, near Elephantine, Egypt, north of Aswan. It was discovered in 1889 by [...]

by Joseph Davidovits
published in Science in Egyptology, Proceedings of the Science in Egyptology Symposia, Manchester, U.K., pp. 511-520, 1984.
The hypothesis that the limestone that constitutes the major pyramids of the Old Kingdom of Egypt is man-made stone, is discussed. Samples from six different sites at the traditionally associated quarries of Turah and Mokattam have been [...]