Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...

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 ...

Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.

Scientists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have unearthed a construction site preserved exactly as it was when ...

Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed ...

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

We tend to imagine ancient materials as crude or primitive, but Roman concrete was more sophisticated than anything in use ...

Many of the world’s most fascinating archaeological sites are overshadowed by their more famous neighbors, leaving countless ...

The museum campus – the largest devoted to a single civilisation – took more than 20 years to build. Read more at ...

Scene of Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE contains a construction site where unfinished walls, dry materials and tools have ...

Age-old amphitheaters in Antalya province, among Türkiye’s most significant cultural treasures, were used for a range of ...

Tucked away in Western Spain, in the province of Badajoz, lies the city of Mérida, the capital of the autonomous community of ...