Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

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 ...

Wilson said the class’s development of combining physical skills and critical thinking allows students to develop their ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

Archaeologists in Rome are using advanced laser technology to clean the Column of Marcus Aurelius, removing decades of grime. This marks the most extensive use of laser cleaning in Italy. The ...

Archaeologists in Rome are using laser technology to restore the Column of Marcus Aurelius, a monument celebrating Roman victories. The technique unveils the marble beneath decades of grime, ensuring ...

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

Analysis of drain samples at Vindolanda, the Roman fort close to Hadrian's Wall in northern England, reveal traces of ancient ...

Under an ordinary living room, a family home in northeastern France concealed an extraordinary secret: three buried jars ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...