Neglect a modern concrete structure for a few decades and it’ll start to fall apart – and yet, structures built by the ancient Romans are still standing strong after 2,000 years. Now, engineers have ...

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 found in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Roman concrete is incredibly durable, even more so than modern concrete. Scientists have long wondered what gave it its ...

Scientists have long pondered the durability of ancient Roman concrete structures, which have not only stood the test of time but have held up under extreme conditions, assuming it came down to a ...

Ancient Roman concrete's remarkable durability, long attributed to luck, is now understood as a result of a sophisticated ...

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(Image: Drilling out a sample of an ancient Roman concrete structure in Portus Cosanus, Tuscany, in 2003.) Ancient Roman concrete was more durable than any developed before or since. "It's the most ...

A road or bridge made from modern concrete might only last 50 years. But the massive Pantheon building in Rome, made from unreinforced concrete, has been standing for nearly two millennia. And nearby, ...

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 after ...

Ancient Roman concrete, which was used to build aqueducts, bridges, and buildings across the empire, has endured for over two thousand years. In a study publishing July 25 in the Cell Press journal ...