A road or bridge made from modern concrete might only last 50 years. But the massive Pantheon building in Rome, made from unreinforced concrete, has been standing for nearly two millennia. And nearby, ...
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This Ancient Construction Site in the Ruins of Pompeii Is Revealing New Secrets About the 2,000-Year-Old Recipe for Roman Concrete
New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...
Archaeological ceramics and pottery production constitute an interdisciplinary field that deciphers the technological practices and cultural traditions of past societies. Fundamental to this research ...
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How Modern Science Reconstructed Egyptian Blue and Unveiled Its Ancient and Future Secrets
“It doesn’t matter what the rest of it is, which was really quite surprising to us,” said John McCloy, director of Washington State University’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, in ...
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