Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing ...

New research into an abandoned construction site in Pompeii has revealed the secrets of Roman cement manufacturing.

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

A number of videos and images created by artificial intelligence that claim to accurately depict ancient Rome have been ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered the secrets of their technology. In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for ...

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...

Wilson said the class’s development of combining physical skills and critical thinking allows students to develop their ...