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

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

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

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

For centuries, scholars thought they understood how Romans made concrete with exceptional durability. Now, evidence suggests the historical texts describe only part of the picture. Analysis of an ...

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

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

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 ...

For an elegant dinner party dessert, this buttermilk panna cotta features a silky, sweet custard topped with caramelized peaches. A balance of fresh, juicy peaches and creamy panna cotta, it's sure to ...