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

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

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

By Will Dunham Dec 9 (Reuters) - Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen ...

Beneath an office building in London, the first Roman civic basilica appears, revealing the lost ancient town hall of ...

Roman buildings were engineered with hot mixed, self-healing concrete of quicklime and volcanic ash that strengthens in seawater.

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

MIT researchers have identified the methods behind the remarkable longevity of Roman concrete, confirming self-healing ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

Authoritarian regimes use architecture to reshape what the public believes by saturating public spaces with political symbols ...

Experience the grandeur of the Arena di Verona from the sky, capturing its ancient Roman architecture, iconic elliptical ...