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

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable self-healing concrete ...

Discovery of building materials abandoned at construction site reveals secrets of ancient concrete that can set underwater ...

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

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.

Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed ...

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