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

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

Updated on Dec. 10 at 10:37 a.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered a challenge to a federal law limiting the amount of ...

I found myself in the unusual position of nodding along in enthusiastic agreement with the aesthetic tastes of US ...

For centuries, scholars thought they understood how Romans made concrete with exceptional durability. Now, evidence suggests the historical texts describe only part of the picture. Analysis of an ...

Conservative Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett were uncharacteristically quiet during arguments in a ...