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Show USE OF ASPHALT IN ANTIQUITY That asphalt was known to the au-Clenta au-Clenta is a well-attested fact, Its use aa a binder for masonry In Babylon j being in point, but of Its use other . than this wo know nothing Strabo tells us that as early as 2000 B. C the streets of Babylon were paved, and 10 too. presumably were tho great roads leading out from the many rates of that city. Dabylon was situ ti .1 lu the alluvial plain of Mesopotn inia and its building material was almost entirely clay, either as such or In the form of bricks. It seems rather doubtrul that these latter were used to pave the streets at that early date laphalt was abundant and mu h need In building operations, and it does not B i iii improbable that it was utilized to Improve the stieets. Dr. E. W Cudger in Science rtn |