A remarkable archaeological discovery off the coast of Brittany, France, has unveiled a massive undersea wall dating back to around 5,000 BC. This ancient structure, measuring 120 meters in length, ...

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

This article is going to look at some of those early ideas and how they’ve grown into the technology examples we see all ...

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 ...

The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

Loren E. Babcock, The Ohio State University, introduces research on Cladoselache, a puzzling ancient shark-like fish ...