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

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

Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

Rome’s Pantheon stands defiant 2,000 years after it was built, its marble floors sheltered under the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. For decades, researchers have probed samples from Roman ...

Archaeologists at a Pompeii site buried by the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius have uncovered evidence of ancient Roman ...

Concrete: we can't live with it, can't live without it. A combination of cement, water and rock or sand aggregates, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii discovered a workshop that combined two elements that allowed the concrete to “heal” itself.