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An ancient Arabian city was built of salt blocks
Pliny the Elder wrote that at Gerrha, a trading city in Arabia, the walls and houses were made of blocks of salt, “soldered” together by wetting them with water.
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Original sources
- Pliny the Elder. Natural History, Book 31, ch. 39. Bostock & Riley trans., 1855. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=31:chapter=39