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This Ancient Construction Site in the Ruins of Pompeii Is Revealing New Secrets About the 2,000-Year-Old Recipe for Roman Concrete
New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...
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13 Ancient Ruins You Can Explore Without the Crowds
Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...
Exploring ancient ruins is like stepping into a time machine. Some of these ruins make you wonder how in the world they were ...
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Desert ruins may reveal the oldest observatory in the Americas
In the coastal desert of Peru, a line of crumbling stone towers rises from the sand, framing the horizon with an almost ...
Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...
We dig into Austin’s graffiti past, exploring early markings, lost murals and the hunt for the city’s oldest legible tag ...
Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable ...
Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...
Archeological excavations at Jerash continue to produce new finds more than a century after the ancient city’s rediscovery.
Eva Palmer Sikelianos was a prominent figure in the movement toward reviving ancient Greek artistic and cultural practices.
Archaeologists finished excavating the most complete part ever discovered of the foundations of the walls, which surrounded ...
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in modern-day Turkey, was an ornate memorial built for Carian ruler Mausolus and overseen by his sister-wife Artemesia II.
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