A recent MIT-led study reveals that Roman concrete’s strength comes from volcanic ash, lime clasts, and hot mixing, giving it self-healing powers that modern cement lacks.

In this video, I discuss a few modern techniques that help improve design life of concrete ... of differences between modern concrete and that of the western Roman empire that I didn’t have ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to figure out the secret to Roman concrete, and now, they may have made a major breakthrough. This concrete, often referred to as pozzolanic concrete ...

The material, light tan and granular, had been a critical component of the Roman Empire, he said: the precursor to concrete, a mainstay of Roman infrastructure, including the aqueducts that ...

Like many ancient Roman structures, parts of it were constructed using a specific type of concrete. Scientists and engineers have long suspected a key to these buildings' durability is their use ...