New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...
Millions of people travel all over the world to witness the remnants of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire is, to date, one of the most influential civilizations. As a culture with exponential ...
Researchers are uncovering new details about Egypt's northern coast through ancient Greek and Roman ruins at Darazya, near El ...
Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...
Roman garrisons abroad specified that civilian settlements were to be built “extra leugam”, literally beyond a league, a unit of distance measuring 1.4 miles. So it proved in Gebenstorf, northern ...
As we walked from my hotel, towards the centre of town, my guide suddenly pointed to a building, that stopped me in my tracks ...
Archaeologists in Aachen found an ancient Roman wall, part of a destroyed fort and a clue in a 140-year-old mystery, city officials said. Photo from the City of Aachen Walking through the center of ...
When the German explorer Ulrich Jasper Seetzen stumbled upon a set of ruins near the Jordanian capital of Amman in 1806, little did he know that he had just discovered one of the largest and ...
Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...
Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures ...
Location: Inside a sealed building at an abandoned estate 375m SW of Ravensburg The Artifact is inside the building with the breakable door in the sealed courtyard. Once at the estate, face the ...