New clues about concrete making The discovery of this particular building site hit the news early last year. The builders were quite literally repairing a house in the middle of the city, when Mount ...

When excavators stepped into a half-finished living room in Pompeii, they were not just walking into a frozen renovation, they were entering a 2,000‑year‑old construction workshop that still held its ...

Evidence of Roman engineering ingenuity is not in short supply. From Rome’s Pantheon to the Pont du Gard aqueduct in southern France to the Alcántara Bridge on the Iberian Peninsula, large-scale ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Note the razor-sharp concrete edges that have lasted hundreds of years at the Roman Pantheon ...

A newly excavated, ancient construction site at Pompeii, frozen in time after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, has allowed archaeologists to finally determine the methods used to make Roman concrete.

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the construction of buildings, bridges, and aqueducts, many of which are still ...

Ancient Rome was full of master builders and engineers. The fruits of their labors can still be seen in the aqueducts they built—which still function to this day—as well as the Pantheon, a nearly ...

Ancient Roman concrete, which was used to build aqueducts, bridges, and buildings across the empire, has endured for over two thousand years. In a study publishing July 25 in the Cell Press journal ...

Long before the Industrial Revolution brought vertical living, the insulae pioneered the concept of the walk-up apartment. Though their origins remain obscure, a historical record of the Roman ...