Concrete poured by Roman engineers into Mediterranean harbors roughly two millennia ago is still intact, while modern ...

Roman concrete helped build some of the ancient world’s most durable monuments, yet the technology nearly vanished during the ...

Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can be found in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Roman concrete is incredibly durable, even more so than modern concrete. Scientists have long wondered what gave it its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers still puzzle over exactly how Roman concrete was made, but they have a few clues, including many of its ingredients ...

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 ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have lasted for thousands of years. The discovery points to a special ...

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Despite their empire falling more than 1,500 years ago, the Roman recipe for concrete remains stronger than anything around today. And it's all thanks to seawater. Roman concrete combined volcanic ash ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. There is the famous scene in Monty Python's "Life of Brian" ...

(Image: Drilling out a sample of an ancient Roman concrete structure in Portus Cosanus, Tuscany, in 2003.) Ancient Roman concrete was more durable than any developed before or since. "It's the most ...