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

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 into an abandoned construction site in Pompeii has revealed the secrets of Roman cement manufacturing.

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

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

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

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

Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. And those still functional marvels rely on a unique construction material: pozzolanic ...

Ancient Roman concrete, which was used to build aqueducts, bridges, and buildings across the empire, has endured for over two thousand years. In a study publishing July 25 in the Cell Press journal ...

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