Pitt looked at 372 non-adult skeletons (mostly infants and toddlers) and 274 adult females from 24 different sites across ...

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

A unique archaeological site at Pompeii, Italy, reveals the secrets of peculiarly durable Roman building materials.

New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

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

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

Yet, everything changed when archaeologists uncovered a remarkably preserved construction site in Pompeii. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the site had retained raw material piles, ...

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

Discovery of building materials abandoned at construction site reveals secrets of ancient concrete that can set underwater ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii discovered a workshop that combined two elements that allowed the concrete to “heal” itself.

Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece ...