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

Fresh excavations in Pompeii have turned a buried construction workshop into a working laboratory, revealing how Roman ...

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

Roman concrete is often hailed as a major engineering feat. It has allowed the ...

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

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...

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

MIT chemist Admir Masic really hoped his experiment wouldn’t explode. Masic and his colleagues were trying to re-create an ancient Roman technique for making concrete, a mix of cement, gravel, sand ...

Deputy Editor Amanda Borschel-Dan is the host of The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, What Matters Now, Friday Focus and The Reel Schmooze podcasts, and heads up The Times of Israel's features. A ...

Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can be found in ...

But even though the deck is stacked against him like never before, this is all being done for a specific purpose. The company wants Roman to reign at that top level, and this is the best possible way ...

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 ...