A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human ...

Making fire on demand was a milestone in the lives of our early ancestors. But the question of when that skill first arose ...

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

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Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.

The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

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

As far as kitchen staples, you don’t really get much better than olive oil. It can do it all—jazz up a salad, sauté ...

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...