Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...
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Pompeii find proves Romans perfected self‑healing concrete
But could a 2,000‑year‑old construction site hold the key to building longer‑lasting, greener infrastructure today?
We tend to imagine ancient materials as crude or primitive, but Roman concrete was more sophisticated than anything in use ...
VERONA – Verona’s ancient Roman Arena will receive a modern facelift and become more accessible to people with disabilities ahead of the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, where it will host both the Olympic ...
Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable self-healing concrete ...
Archaeologists in France found a hidden hoard of Roman coins buried beneath a village with ancient roots.
From rural schools award-winning projects, Mariam Issoufou is turning traditional, climate-savvy architecture into a ...
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Ancient Roman concrete could heal itself? New Pompeii evidence shows a key step scholars missed
Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.
Scene of Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE contains a construction site where unfinished walls, dry materials and tools have ...
Archaeologists reveal hidden ancient sites across Greece’s Cyclades islands, uncovering long-lost rural landscapes.
An extraordinarily well-preserved ancient Roman construction site in Pompeii has provided the clearest evidence yet of how ...
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