Opus isodomum

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Opus isodomum ("work of equal height") is an ancient technique of wall construction with ashlars. It uses perfectly cut, completely regular squared stone blocks of equal height, and sometimes of the same length.

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Image: Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.