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

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 ...

But could a 2,000‑year‑old construction site hold the key to building longer‑lasting, greener infrastructure today?

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

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 ...

Two UTA professors are pioneering change with their project to revive oyster reefs using 3D printed reconstructions of ancient Roman concrete in the Gulf of Mexico. Adnan Rajib, civil engineering ...

Minecraft Concrete is a great building material, with various colors available, and is often brighter than other comparable materials like Wool or Terracotta. The path to creating concrete in ...

In the first global analysis of its kind, researchers found that Roman concrete is only more sustainable than modern concrete if produced with renewable energy, challenging the assumption that its ...

This week, researchers at the University of Albany reported an extreme size difference between early human males and females, suggesting intense competition among males. Krill are so overfished in ...