08-14-2005, 12:09 AM
Pliny the Elder gives a good description on the production of pine pitch/resin which was used as a water proofing agent on painted shipping. Their is a study avaliable online somewhere about Roman ships being recovered in Pisa. I have a copy somewhere but cant find it at the moment.
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again." Maya Angelou