Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can be ...

it was this slaked lime that ancient Romans mixed with the pozzolana. Based on the team's analysis, the lime clasts in their ...

"Ever since I first began working with ancient Roman concrete, I've always been fascinated by these features," MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering Admir Masic said in a news release.

The most recent of these studies reveals that some ancient Roman structures are even stronger today than they were when they were built. Put simple, the Romans really knew their concrete.

An office building from the 1930s in London was about to be demolished — until remnants of the city’s first Roman basilica were found in the basement.

Many of the roads in England follow the route of ancient Romans roads. And many of the words we speak also have their origins in the Latin spoken by the Romans. Roman concrete benefitted from the ...