Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...
A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...
By Will Dunham Dec 9 (Reuters) - Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen ...
Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable self-healing concrete ...
Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.
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 ...
Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists unique insights into ...
Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...
Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...
The Roman Empire was literally built on a special form of extra-tough, self-healing concrete that has managed to stay strong ...
UYUGAN, Batanes — In a quiet village overlooking the sea, scientists, local officials, and community elders gathered on ...