A controversy erupts in Vietnam over 1,000 km of Christmas lights at Saigon's Notre-Dame Cathedral. Critics call it wasteful ...

Churches across the U.S. are setting up nativity scenes this holiday season that make a political statement about immigration ...

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

An unfinished construction site in Pompeii is giving researchers their best look yet at ancient Roman technology, revealing how builders created concrete strong enough to shape an empire. The ...

Roman concrete has stood the test of time, and new research finally reveals why this ancient material is so durable.

Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many ...

“These results revealed that the Romans prepared their binding material by taking calcined limestone (quicklime), grinding ...

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

I found myself in the unusual position of nodding along in enthusiastic agreement with the aesthetic tastes of US ...

If Roman concrete has lasted so long through the millennia, we finally know why: during the excavations of a Roman construction site that remained intact since 79 AD and recently discovered in Pompeii ...

"Any other plaintiff who is saying the same things that the vice president is saying here, you would say there is no standing ...

Conservative Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett were uncharacteristically quiet during arguments in a ...