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

Archeologists recently discovered over 40,000 Roman-era coins during a dig in a French village. The treasure trove of ancient ...

We tend to imagine ancient materials as crude or primitive, but Roman concrete was more sophisticated than anything in use ...

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.

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

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

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

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

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...

If you feel a thrill every time we discover something new about the cosmos, then November 25th may have been a noteworthy day ...

The British northern frontier was the edge of the Roman world — and a place of violence, boredom and opportunity, experts ...

Archaeologists in France found a hidden hoard of Roman coins buried beneath a village with ancient roots.