Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

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

Scientists in Kyoto found that fresh grapes rarely host the yeast needed for wine fermentation, but raisins do. They soaked ...

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

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

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

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

An unusual new rock collection discovered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover suggests the Red Planet's ancient past was wet ...

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

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.

New research reveals that ancient Mars once hosted vast river drainage systems comparable in scale to some of Earth’s major ...

A well-kept secret of the Acropolis is a cave hiding an ancient Asclepius temple with a spring of holy water, as later Christians believed.