A villa in Pompeii has survived two thousand years and is still well preserved. Image via Wiki Commons. Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to ...

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

Ancient Romans built arched bridges, waterproof port infrastructure and aqueducts that enabled the rise of their empire and that are still standing—and often still used. In his first-century B.C.E.

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

Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists unique insights into ...

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

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

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The ancient world was probably filled with magicians using science only a few understood, but the works of one man have ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...