A Pompeii site reveals the recipe for Roman concrete. It contradicts a famous architect’s writings

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

Pompeii offers insights into ancient Roman building technology

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

$4.3B Roman telescope survives cuts, poised for deep-space breakthroughs

Transformative science depends on disciplined engineering,” stated Amit Kshatriya, Associate Administrator at NASA, as the ...
New Atlas

Complete ancient Roman city mapped using ground-penetrating radar

An international team of researchers has mapped the entirety of an ancient, buried Roman city known as Falerii Novi using radar scanning technology. The researchers unraveled the secrets of the city, ...

A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete

Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many ...
Brandeis University

Thinking like the Romans

Rome, as they say, wasn’t built in a day. But it was built with great imagination and engineering brio. From elegantly simple pulleys to arches, aqueducts, and catapults, the Romans harnessed and ...
JSTOR Daily

How Did the Romans Do That? Or Teaching Roman Technology in the Secondary School Classroom

The Classical Outlook, Vol. 93, No. 4 (2018), pp. 135-145 (11 pages) Corporals Corner. “How to Make Roman Concrete,” YouTube video, 18:45, July 30, 2017, https ...
Labroots

Concrete Lessons from the Roman Empire

What can concrete made during the Roman Empire help modern engineering develop more efficient concrete? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as an international team of ...
The Advocate

Old, new (and smelly) mix in new Roman Technology class at Baton Rouge middle school

Nathalie Roy has fused her passion for Latin with her interest in the wonders of the ancient world. The result is something new: a class in Roman Technology. This unlikely elective course open to ...
La Brújula Verde

A 1,700-Year-Old Portable Roman Steelyard Balance Found in Leptis Magna in Northwestern Libya

An Egyptian-Libyan research team offers an in-depth analysis of an ancient Roman bronze steelyard balance, revealing its advanced manufacturing techniques and the ravages of time after centuries ...
The Economist

Roman civil engineering has lessons for the modern world

The Romans were master builders. Many of their works, from the Pantheon (pictured above) and the Colosseum in Rome itself, to the Pont du Gard in southern Gaul and the equally impressive aqueduct of ...
Nature

Invisibility cup

Cloaking devices for visible light come a step closer to reality by combining the modern form of a Roman technology with ideas from ancient Greece. Instead of gold nanoparticles embedded in glass, Cai ...