The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing ...

New research into an abandoned construction site in Pompeii has revealed the secrets of Roman cement manufacturing.

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

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

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

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

(CNN) — The majestic structures of ancient Rome have survived for millennia — a testament to the ingenuity of Roman engineers, who perfected the use of concrete. But how did their construction ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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