Pompeii’s ruins challenge Rome’s famous concrete recipe

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

Pompeii offers insights into ancient Roman building technology

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 ...

Ancient Construction Site at Pompeii Sheds Light on Rome’s Miraculous Self-Healing Cement

From the iconic Colosseum in Rome to Hadrian’s Wall all the way in England, there’s one question most people must ask ...

Roman sculpture, architecture, Renaissance painter Lippi’s imagination entwines at CMA

Cleveland Museum of Art has brought together 25 works — paintings, drawings, antiquities — that trace the evolution of ...
Variety

Gallic bio eyes Roman architect

New York-born Gallic auteur Eugene Green is set to return behind the camera with “La Sapience,” a film inspired by the life and work of daring 17th-century architect Francesco Borromini. Swiss-born ...

Scientists discover secrets of ancient Roman concrete at Pompeii

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

Roman Empire on the Mind: 5 Buildings That Justify the Male Fixation With the Era

“Every time I fight people, I think about walking into the Colosseum,” Adam Woolard, a model and boxer, told his fiancée, former Bachelorette Hannah Browne, in a viral TikTok. “It’s like, if this is a ...