Geopolymer Institute

Brief summary of the papers dedicated to archaeology and published in the Geopolymer Proceedings : Geopolymer 2005 and Geeopolymer ‘99
Geopolymer 2005
Synthetic stone in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
manufacture of synthetic lava and synthetic basalt and decipherment of the C-14 Irtysen Stele (2000 B.C.)
The C-14 Irtysen Stele dating 2.000 BC (Louvre Museum, Paris) states that sculptor Irtysen [...]

Joseph Davidovits has found revolutionary ways of producing cements with plants saps, which could explain some of the mysteries associated with Pre-Columbian architectures. Preliminary results had been presented at two International Archaeometry Symposia. See in the library the paper #C Making Cements with Plant Extracts disclosing information dating back to 1981 and 1982.
In 1979, at [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Microstructural Evidence of Reconstituted Limestone Blocks in the Great Pyramids of Egypt, Barsoum, M. W., Ganguly, A. & Hug, G., JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY 89 (12), 3788- 3796, (2006). See the abstract
The Proceedings of Geopolymer 2005 World Congress, 4th Int. Conference on geopolymers, Edited by J. Davidovits, Geopolymer Institute, France 2006. See [...]

Professor Joseph Davidovits has been appointed in the Honorary Scientific Committee of this conference, which will be held at the University of Doha, Qatar.
http://www.qu.edu.qa/chemcon2/honorary.htm
Prof. Davidovits will present two papers, one on Geopolymer material science, the second on the Pyramids made from re-agglomerated stone.
2nd International Conference on Chemistry & its Applications
December 6-9, 2003
Qatar
http://www.qu.edu.qa/chemcon2/index.htm