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 ...

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

Pioneering research led by Teesside University will unlock clues to the Roman Empire’s leather economy, shedding new light on ...

Explore the construction of an underground house and swimming pool set into the cliffside, utilizing ancient building ...

Roman concrete has stood the test of time, and new research finally reveals why this ancient material is so durable.

“Roman cement is durable, it heals itself, and it’s a dynamic system,” Admir Masic, study author and Associate Professor at ...

Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.

If Roman concrete has lasted so long through the millennia, we finally know why: during the excavations of a Roman construction site that remained intact since 79 AD and recently discovered in Pompeii ...

MIT researchers analyzed an ancient Pompeii construction site to determine how the ancient Romans produced concrete that ...

Scientists have uncovered a construction site frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD at Pompeii, revealing ...