A 400-foot-long granite structure off the coast of Brittany suggests late hunter-gatherers were already beginning to settle ...

New research into an abandoned construction site in Pompeii has revealed the secrets of Roman cement manufacturing.

Architects also praise rammed earth’s high thermal mass—insulative properties that regulate a building’s indoor temperature.

The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing ...

A monumental wall and 60 monoliths discovered underwater off Sein Island challenge established timelines of human ingenuity.

New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

On December 6, 2025, the inaugural ceremony of Smart Civil Infrastructures, an international academic journal sponsored by ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed ...

Whatsapp Kashmir’s massive stone monuments, locally called Pandav Lari, display uniform design and striking Greco-Roman influence. Despite extensive studies, the technology behind lifting and ...

For centuries, scholars thought they understood how Romans made concrete with exceptional durability. Now, evidence suggests the historical texts describe only part of the picture. Analysis of an ...

Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's ...