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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Note the razor-sharp concrete edges that have lasted hundreds of years at the Roman Pantheon ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ancient Romans were master engineers. Now, 2,000 years later, scientists have figured out the secret behind the creation of Roman concrete -- one of the world’s most durable man-made creations ...

July 3 (UPI) --Most people think of sea water as corrosive and erosive. But centuries of exposure to seawater has made ancient Roman concrete stronger. Now, researchers know how. In a new study, ...

So, Roman concrete just... won't fall. The Pantheon is still standing. Roman harbor walls have been sitting in seawater for ...