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

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

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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 ...

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

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When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...