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How has Roman concrete lasted for millennia? A 1,900-year-old latrine offers new clues about the material's impressive durability
Ancient Roman infrastructure has stood the test of time. Today, you can walk through Italy and see concrete buildings, roads ...
Explore the innovative surveying instruments, such as the groma and chorobates, that enabled ancient engineers to map ...
The cities of the Roman Empire were studded with great and salubrious public works: stadia and parks, aqueducts and fountains, latrines and sewers. By A.D. 400, Rome could count 11 magnificent ...
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Note the razor-sharp concrete edges that have lasted hundreds of years at the Roman Pantheon ...
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 ...
An international team of researchers publishes the first high-resolution digital atlas of Roman roads, doubling the known length and exposing the vast gaps in our knowledge. This new dataset, ...
Long-term carbonate mineralization helped preserve a 2nd-century Roman concrete sample from Hadrian’s Villa by forming ...
A recent archaeological study has brought to light important findings about the Roman road network that connected Corduba (present-day Córdoba) with Emerita Augusta (now Mérida), highlighting the ...
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