As we've reported previously, like today's Portland cement (a basic ingredient of modern concrete), ancient Roman concrete ...

Ancient Roman concrete, which was used to build aqueducts, bridges, and buildings across the empire, has endured for over two ...

Engineers are looking to Ancient Roman architecture like the Colosseum and the Pantheon when it comes to future “recipes” of ...

According to an international team of environmental engineers, Roman concrete mixtures would need to outlive modern ...

Ancient Roman infrastructure can put modern buildings to shame. While today’s concrete structures might only last a few decades, some long-lived concrete in Rome has survived for 2,000 years.

Modern concrete crumbles in decades, but concrete structures built 2,000 years ago by ancient Romans still stand. A new study explains why.

A tourist at the Roman Pantheon on May 12, 2022. Scientists may have cracked the secrete of why ancient Roman concrete, used on this building, was so durable. Raul Moreno/SOPA Images/LightRocket ...

To this day Roman concrete structures can be found in mundane locations such as harbors, but also the Pantheon in Rome, which to this day forms the largest unreinforced concrete dome in existence ...

In his treatise De architectura (circa 30 CE), the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius wrote about how to build concrete walls for funerary structures that could endure for a long time without ...

Modern concrete starts to fall apart within decades – but ancient Roman structures are still standing strong after 2,000 years. Engineers have found an inclusion that helps ancient concrete self ...

The Romans used concrete to build aqueducts, bridges and buildings that have endured for over 2,000 years. The post Why Roman ...