Abstract
The use of adhesives has been known for several thousand years. Prehistoric tribes placed their dead in tombs containing pieces of broken pottery which had been stuck together with a rosin. Statues over 6000 years old have been recovered from excavated Babylonian temples, on which parts had been glued together with bituminous adhesive. There is a clear early reference to the use of animal glue recorded on stone in the city of Thebes, probably about 1500 B.C. Tutankhamen’s tomb provides additional historical evidence in the form of a glued wooden casket, now in a Cairo museum. Papyrus, an early non-woven has its fibres stuck together with a starch paste.
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Paine, F.A. (1991). Adhesives. In: Paine, F.A. (eds) The Packaging User’s Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1483-7_8
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