When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers still puzzle over exactly how Roman concrete was made, but they have a few clues, ...

Ancient Roman concrete, which was used to build aqueducts, bridges, and buildings across the empire, has endured for over two thousand years. In a study publishing July 25 in the Cell Press journal ...

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for the secret behind Ancient Rome's ultra-durable concrete. Last year, from ...

Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures in a fraction of the time. The surprising reason is not mystical at all, but ...

Pompeii Discovery Rewrites the Story of Roman Concrete and Its Self-Healing Power ...

The Colosseum, inaugurated in A.D. 80, seated 50,000 and hosted gladiatorial games, ritual animal hunts, parades and executions. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Images The Romans started making concrete ...

Evidence of Roman engineering ingenuity is not in short supply. From Rome’s Pantheon to the Pont du Gard aqueduct in southern France to the Alcántara Bridge on the Iberian Peninsula, large-scale ...

Ancient Rome was full of master builders and engineers. The fruits of their labors can still be seen in the aqueducts they built—which still function to this day—as well as the Pantheon, a nearly ...

A newly discovered construction site in Pompeii proves out a theory of why Roman concrete has stood the test of time. The hot-mixing process of concrete creation found in the ancient city was the ...

Roman concrete's durability and strength blows our own out of the water (in this case, literally). And after years of research, we're getting better at understanding why. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...