Architecture tells the story of a city, its history, culture, and vision for the future. For those of us who find beauty in ...
Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...
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Scientists Found the Secret to Roman Concrete in a Half-Finished Pompeii Living Room
Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the self-healing material that allowed Roman structures to defy time. As it turns ...
Archaeologists in Pompeii discovered a workshop that combined two elements that allowed the concrete to “heal” itself.
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We Finally Know Why Roman Concrete Has Survived For Nearly 2,000 Years
A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for the secret behind Ancient Rome's ultra-durable concrete.
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 ...
The only snag was that this didn’t match the recipe as described in historical texts. Now the same team is back with a fresh analysis of samples collected from a recently discovered site that confirms ...
Built in the late 1920s, Shady Nook, 944 Poplar Blvd., Jackson, began as a neighborhood filling station serving Belhaven’s ...
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'This has re-written our understanding of Roman concrete manufacture': Abandoned Pompeii worksite reveal how self-healing concrete was made
The discovery of a 2,000-year-old building site in Pompeii reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing ...
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