We tend to imagine ancient materials as crude or primitive, but Roman concrete was more sophisticated than anything in use ...
Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...
Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable self-healing concrete ...
MIT scientists have used modern technology to unravel the mysterious self-healing properties of ancient Roman concrete.