Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the construction of buildings, bridges, and aqueducts, many of which are still ...

Romans technology was way ahead of most contemporary cultures, and we finally found a clue as to how they managed one of their most famous of all.

We like to think of technological progress as a straight line — primitive beginnings, slow medieval trudge, industrial explosion, digital revolution. But history keeps poking holes in that comfortable ...

Ancient civilizations demonstrated remarkable ingenuity in solving complex engineering, architectural, and technological challenges using tools and methods that often seem impossibly sophisticated for ...

An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...