Transformative science depends on disciplined engineering,” stated Amit Kshatriya, Associate Administrator at NASA, as the ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have ...

Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures in a fraction of the time. The surprising reason is not mystical at all, but ...

An international team of researchers has mapped the entirety of an ancient, buried Roman city known as Falerii Novi using radar scanning technology. The researchers unraveled the secrets of the city, ...

Rome, as they say, wasn’t built in a day. But it was built with great imagination and engineering brio. From elegantly simple pulleys to arches, aqueducts, and catapults, the Romans harnessed and ...

(CNN) — Along with its many other innovations, the Roman Empire revolutionized architecture with never-before-seen features, such as large-scale arches and dome roofs. And many of these structures ...

Nathalie Roy has fused her passion for Latin with her interest in the wonders of the ancient world. The result is something new: a class in Roman Technology. This unlikely elective course open to ...

A construction site in Pompeii that was never completed is providing researchers with incredible insight into ancient Roman technology. It has revealed how builders were able to make concrete strong ...

The Classical Outlook, Vol. 93, No. 4 (2018), pp. 135-145 (11 pages) Corporals Corner. “How to Make Roman Concrete,” YouTube video, 18:45, July 30, 2017, https ...

What can concrete made during the Roman Empire help modern engineering develop more efficient concrete? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as an international team of ...

The Romans were master builders. Many of their works, from the Pantheon (pictured above) and the Colosseum in Rome itself, to the Pont du Gard in southern Gaul and the equally impressive aqueduct of ...

Cloaking devices for visible light come a step closer to reality by combining the modern form of a Roman technology with ideas from ancient Greece. Instead of gold nanoparticles embedded in glass, Cai ...