The only snag was that this didn’t match the recipe as described in historical texts. Now the same team is back with a fresh ...

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

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...

Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists unique insights into ...

New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

MIT scientists have used modern technology to unravel the mysterious self-healing properties of ancient Roman concrete.

Lime granules trapped in ancient walls show Romans relied on a reactive hot-mix method to making concrete that could now ...

Discovery of building materials abandoned at construction site reveals secrets of ancient concrete that can set underwater ...

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 ...

Yet, everything changed when archaeologists uncovered a remarkably preserved construction site in Pompeii. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the site had retained raw material piles, ...

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