Pompeii offers insights into ancient Roman building technology

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

Pompeii archaeology breakthrough as experts make fascinating building discovery

Yet, everything changed when archaeologists uncovered a remarkably preserved construction site in Pompeii. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the site had retained raw material piles, ...
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Scientists found the secret to Roman concrete in a half-finished Pompeii living room

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...
Morning Overview on MSN

NASA finishes the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, completing assembly of the agency’s next flagship ...
Greek Reporter

Unfinished Pompeii Project Reveals Ancient Roman Building Technology

Archaeologists uncovered a Pompeii project that reveals how ancient Romans used hot-mixing technology to create durable ...
New Atlas

Complete ancient Roman city mapped using ground-penetrating radar

An international team of researchers has mapped the entirety of an ancient, buried Roman city known as Falerii Novi using radar scanning technology. The researchers unraveled the secrets of the city, ...
Brandeis University

Thinking like the Romans

Rome, as they say, wasn’t built in a day. But it was built with great imagination and engineering brio. From elegantly simple pulleys to arches, aqueducts, and catapults, the Romans harnessed and ...
The Advocate

Old, new (and smelly) mix in new Roman Technology class at Baton Rouge middle school

Nathalie Roy has fused her passion for Latin with her interest in the wonders of the ancient world. The result is something new: a class in Roman Technology. This unlikely elective course open to ...
Labroots

Concrete Lessons from the Roman Empire

What can concrete made during the Roman Empire help modern engineering develop more efficient concrete? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as an international team of ...
JSTOR Daily

How Did the Romans Do That? Or Teaching Roman Technology in the Secondary School Classroom

The Classical Outlook, Vol. 93, No. 4 (2018), pp. 135-145 (11 pages) Corporals Corner. “How to Make Roman Concrete,” YouTube video, 18:45, July 30, 2017, https ...
The Economist

Roman civil engineering has lessons for the modern world

The Romans were master builders. Many of their works, from the Pantheon (pictured above) and the Colosseum in Rome itself, to the Pont du Gard in southern Gaul and the equally impressive aqueduct of ...
Nature

Invisibility cup

Cloaking devices for visible light come a step closer to reality by combining the modern form of a Roman technology with ideas from ancient Greece. Instead of gold nanoparticles embedded in glass, Cai ...