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If you want to know how the knowledge evolved after the Egyptian Pyramids click on Colosses of Memnon

If you want to know how the knowledge evolved after the Pyramids click on Colosses of Memnon

In Egypt, the return of agglomerated (geopolymer) stone
1300 years after the Great Pyramids,
under Amenhotep III and Akhenaton (18th Dynasty).

Divine incarnation in carved stone became the rule under the New Kingdom around 1400-1200 B.C. and the hegemony of the god Amun. The soft sandstone from the Silsilis quarries, used for in the great temples at Karnak [...]

Professor Joseph DAVIDOVITS presents his first course for beginners in geopolymer chemistry and applications.

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With your order, you will receive two items: the book Geopolymer Chemistry and Applications and the disk containing 6 hours of video presentations as shown in the picture.
Watch this short presentation, it [...]

By Joseph DAVIDOVITS
A Practical and Scientific Approach to Sustainable Development 2nd Edition

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What can be done about the major concerns of our Global Economy on energy, global warming, sustainable development, user-friendly processes, and green chemistry? Here is an important contribution to the mastering of these phenomena today. [...]

Professor Joseph Davidovits is proud to announce the release of his book entitled: GEOPOLYMER CHEMISTRY AND APPLICATIONS with ca. 590 pages and 26 Chapters.
The photo shows the first printing for proof-reading. We expect to get the first exemplars printed for the end of February 2008. The first edition of the book will be sold [...]

On November 30, the Journal of the American Ceramic Society has released a very important scientific research carried out on the pyramid stones, which confirms the theory developed by Professor Joseph Davidovits on agglomerated (artificial) limestone concrete (ancient geopolymer).
The references of this paper are :
Barsoum, M. W., Ganguly, A. & Hug, G. (2006), Microstructural Evidence [...]

The oldest ceramic ever manufactured, the Venus of Dolni Vestonice, is displayed at the Anthropology Museum, at Brno, Czech Republic. The Venus of Dolni Vestonice was visited by Prof. Joseph Davidovits who writes:
” I still had for my eyes the image of the yellow limestone Venus displayed at the Vienna Museum, Austria, to be very [...]

At the 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1984 Symposia on Archaeometry, Joseph Davidovits showed the possibility of fabricating ceramics by Low Temperature Geopolymeric Setting between 50°C and 500°C. The results obtained with LTGS have been surprising and very interesting from the archaeological point of view, e.g. the fabrication of ceramic whose surface is covered by [...]

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 [...]