When excavators stepped into a half-finished living room in Pompeii, they were not just walking into a frozen renovation, ...

There's something about ancient civilizations that fascinates us even thousands of years later. Their architecture, ...

The concrete of ancient Rome was notoriously strong. Many of the buildings, bridges, and aqueducts built by the Romans still ...

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

A major mystery has surrounded the Hjortspring boat ever since its discovery: where did these invading warriors from the 4th ...

On the market for $26 million, Villa d'Autore on the Via Appia Antica was once owned by the Italian cinema icon and her ...

New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

MIT scientists have used modern technology to unravel the mysterious self-healing properties of ancient Roman concrete.

Much of human history has been influenced and shaped by warfare. Warfare itself predates history, with the squabbles and fights […] ...

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 ...

Wilson said the class’s development of combining physical skills and critical thinking allows students to develop their ...