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 ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University announced a breakthrough in ...

T he Pantheon in Rome has stood for nearly 2,000 years, boasting the largest unreinforced concrete dome on Earth. Many other ...

The Secret Of Ancient Rome’s Concrete Has Finally Been Revealed What did Roman engineers know about construction that we don't? After 2,000 years, we may have an answer.

This microscopic image shows the lumpy calcium-aluminum-silicate-hydrate (C-A-S-H) binder material that forms when volcanic ash, lime, and seawater mix. Platy crystals of Al-tobermorite have grown ...

They used concrete everywhere…like here at the Pantheon. This looks like it could have been built yesterday! Artists have been inspired by Roman art and painted Roman legends hundreds of years ...