This homeowner's guide to plastering will help homesteaders understand how to work with plaster. Commonly used as a protective finish over exterior walls, plasters also offer durability and beauty for ...

Historians have long known that the Romans sometimes covered their dead in liquid gypsum, a mineral used in plaster, before placing the bodies in their tombs. Still, the ritual—and the reasons behind ...

The fingerprints and hand marks reveal the close, personal contact the Romans had with their dead, according to Carroll.

THE initial thickening of slurries of hemi-hydrate type gypsum plasters has been considered by many workers to be due to a colloidal mechanism, whereas the further hardening and final setting have ...