Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...
New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...
MIT scientists have used modern technology to unravel the mysterious self-healing properties of ancient Roman concrete.
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 ...
We tend to imagine ancient materials as crude or primitive, but Roman concrete was more sophisticated than anything in use ...
Urban populations in southern Britain experienced a decline in health that lasted for generations after the Romans arrived ...
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4,000 year wind technology: The real ancient Iranian engineering behind Dune’s windtraps
Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed ...
A preserved construction site at Pompeii is reshaping modern understanding of how Rome engineered its famously durable concrete.
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Ancient Roman concrete could heal itself? New Pompeii evidence shows a key step scholars missed
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 ...
Scene of Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE contains a construction site where unfinished walls, dry materials and tools have ...
Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...
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