Secret discovered behind the Great Wall of China's strength: sticky rice was used for mortar

By Mail Foreign Service Rice Wall of China: The sweet rice favoured by the Chinese is the secret to their most famous structure's strengthThe delicious 'sticky' rice' that is a modern mainstay in Asian dishes was the secret behind an ancient Chinese super-strong mortar.Researchers also concluded that the mortar - a paste used to bind and fill gaps between bricks, stone blocks and other