SCIENTISTS excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ingredients and methods ...
The system identified 86,276 earthquakes—roughly ten times more than conventional detection methods had cataloged. Most of these events were too small and numerous for older techniques to isolate, ...
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Ancient Pompeii site reveals Roman concrete’s self-healing secret
It is not often that a construction site dating from 79 CE re-emerges, complete with its tools, raw materials, and walls in mid-build. Yet under the volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius, archaeologists have ...
Scientists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have unearthed a construction site preserved exactly as it was when ...
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