Is there a significant survivor bias in analyzing surviving Roman concrete structures? Perhaps a very high percentage of Roman concrete structures fell apart after a few years. Are we just analyzing ...

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. Last year, from ...

So, Roman concrete just... won't fall. The Pantheon is still standing. Roman harbor walls have been sitting in seawater for two millennia and are somehow fine. Every few years, another study comes out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pantheon in Rome lit up The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the ...

Although modern-day skyscraper and bridge constructions could begin deteriorating within 50 years, the Pantheon and coastal ...

Ancient Rome was full of master builders and engineers. The fruits of their labors can still be seen in the aqueducts they built—which still function to this day—as well as the Pantheon, a nearly ...

(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 ...

Evidence of Roman engineering ingenuity is not in short supply. From Rome’s Pantheon to the Pont du Gard aqueduct in southern France to the Alcántara Bridge on the Iberian Peninsula, large-scale ...

The article's mention of the 2000 year old mausoleum got me to wonder how I could have my own remains encased in a vault made of Roman concrete instead of the current stuff. I'm already looking into ...