Pompeii archaeology breakthrough as experts make fascinating building discovery

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, ...

Pompeii’s ruins challenge Rome’s famous concrete recipe

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

Ancient Construction Site at Pompeii Sheds Light on Rome’s Miraculous Self-Healing Cement

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Village Voice

Investment, technology, and innovation: Meet Roman Taranov, a Millennial Self-Made Entrepreneur

In 2018, Roman Taranov founded the mobile app publisher and developer Ruby Labs (RL) after closing operations with his previous (self-founded) global company, RGK. A few months later, RL’s research ...
Newsweek

Complete Roman City Mapped Using Advanced Ground-Penetrating Radar Technology

Researchers have mapped an entire Roman city using advanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) technology in what they describe as an archaeological first. A team from Ghent University in Belgium ...