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 ...

The famous Pantheon in Rome boasts the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome—an architectural marvel that has endured for millennia, thanks to the incredible durability of ancient Roman ...

Ancient Roman concrete is incredibly durable, even more so than modern concrete. Scientists have long wondered what gave it its incredible strength. One team may have cracked the mystery ...

A fresco featuring the bright blue paint of the newly opened room; a scanning electron image of an ancient Roman concrete sample with lime clast, highlighted in red; Dr. Masic inspecting the ...

The Pantheon's dome, the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, is still standing despite being nearly 2,000 years old. Stephen Knowles Photography via Getty Images Ancient Roman ...

Buildings built with concrete in ancient Rome continue to stand firm to this day. This has spurred many researchers to look for the key to Rome’s success with concrete in the early days ...

Ancient Roman concrete is a global fascination. Remarkably, the Pantheon—Rome’s unreinforced concrete dome, dedicated in 128 A.D.—still stands to this day, and aqueducts from the same period ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Admir Masic, professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT, about what made concrete used by Ancient Romans so incredibly durable. Ancient Rome wasn't built in ...

The researchers conducted a sophisticated examination of concrete from the walls of the ancient city of Privernum, located in Italy south of Rome. They deciphered unexpected manufacturing ...

Scientist looked at bright white chunks of lime found in the concrete used in ancient structures such as the Colosseum. Photo from David Köhler via Unsplash The Colosseum, the Pantheon, and mile ...

Mineral deposits called “lime clasts” found in ancient Roman concrete give the material self-healing capabilities that could help engineers develop more resilient modern concrete and reduce it ...

This self-healing mechanism may be a major factor in the longevity of ancient Roman concrete structures. To test the hypothesis, the researchers then produced hot-mixed samples of ancient and ...