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

“These results revealed that the Romans prepared their binding material by taking calcined limestone (quicklime), grinding ...

Scientists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have unearthed a construction site preserved exactly as it was when ...

For centuries, scholars thought they understood how Romans made concrete with exceptional durability. Now, evidence suggests the historical texts describe only part of the picture. Analysis of an ...

In collaboration with scientists in Germany, EPFL researchers have demonstrated that the spiral geometry of tiny, twisted ...

Aerial view of the temple of Venus located in the archaeological park of Baia, a hamlet of Bacoli, in the metropolitan city of Naples, in Campania, Italy. It was an octagonal thermal building, with ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

For nearly two millennia, a library entombed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius remained silent. Among its shelves—now carbonized into fragile, inky cylinders—lay a scroll so blackened it appeared ...

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll and local officials held a press conference on Wednesday to highlight the department's various projects from the 2025 season and to ...

Earlier this year, Little Feat released their 18th studio album Strike Up The Band. The longstanding group has been pushing on after the death of guitarist Paul Barrere in 2019. Now, they're ...

Several months ago, Little Feat keyboardist, singer, and co-founder Billy Payne, along with his bandmates, heard an interesting proposition from their managers. Little Feat had just released Strike Up ...