Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures ...

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

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing ...

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

Yet, everything changed when archaeologists uncovered a remarkably preserved construction site in Pompeii. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the site had retained raw material piles, ...

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 ...

Contemporary concrete is designed to last for about 100 years. Yet at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea lie the remains of Roman harbors, buildings and other structures that have remained ...

Two thousand years ago, Roman builders constructed vast sea walls and harbor piers. The concrete they used outlasted the empire - and still holds lessons for modern engineers, scientists say. A bunch ...

In 1982 the ground beneath the Italian port town of Pozzuoli, near Naples, began to swell. In the next two years, the town rose more than six feet. Rocks underground cracked under the strain, sparking ...