For all the damage that the 2019 Notre Dame fire wrought, it presented archaeologists in Paris with a unique opportunity to peer into through the landmark's history.
This second architect most likely adopted the staple technique from the masonry master before him. And he probably passed on that knowledge to the next in charge.
"This continuity in techniques, from the lower level of the tribunes, to the top of the building and probably involving at least three master masons over a 50-year timespan is striking in Notre-Dame," archaeologists"Its master builders decided to employ forms known since Antiquity, such staples being for example extensively used in the Colosseum in Rome, in a novel implementation to serve an innovative architecture.
Possibly even more intriguing, a chemical analysis of the medieval staples suggests they came from multiple different sources and were commonly welded together.
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