Two years ago, a viral trend tore through TikTok wherein women asked the men in their lives how often they thought about the ...
Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.
The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...
The vessels and coin hoards found by the reasearcher date from much later, around the late 3 rd to early 4 th century C.E.
New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...
Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...
New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...
While excavating at the ancient fort of La Loma in the northern Iberian Peninsula, archaeologists found the shattered remnants of a skull.
Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures ...
Recent emphasis on climate science has impacted how we think about ancient civilizations. Long-held theories about the collapse of ancient civilizations are starting to change. Climate change wasn't ...
When discussing the ancient world and how it impacts us today, there’s perpetually a massive tunic-clad and public-bathing elephant in the room: the Roman Empire. According to a recent social media ...