The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing ...
New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...
New research into an abandoned construction site in Pompeii has revealed the secrets of Roman cement manufacturing.
You don’t need a marble palace to learn something new about the Roman Empire. Sometimes a construction project does the job.
Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...
The concrete of ancient Rome was notoriously strong. Many of the buildings, bridges, and aqueducts built by the Romans still ...
Authoritarian regimes use architecture to reshape what the public believes by saturating public spaces with political symbols ...
Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many ...
An international research team has created a new map of the Roman Empire — and it expands the ancient road network by more than 60,000 miles (100,000 kilometers). "The 200-year research history on ...
A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...