Curious if Roman concrete is really better than the stuff we use today? Dive into this showdown between ancient and modern ...

Engineers are turning to a chemistry that ancient Romans perfected two millennia ago to build thermal batteries capable of ...

Is there a significant survivor bias in analyzing surviving Roman concrete structures? Perhaps a very high percentage of Roman concrete structures fell apart after a few years. Are we just analyzing ...

In June, the Italian Ministry of Culture announced the excavation of a new room, not yet open to the public, in the ruins of Pompeii. A few weeks later, a group of archaeologists gathered to marvel at ...