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Half-finished Pompeii room reveals the secret of Roman concrete

When excavators stepped into a half-finished living room in Pompeii, they were not just walking into a frozen renovation, they were entering a 2,000‑year‑old construction workshop that still held its ...
Ars Technica

Study confirms Romans used “hot mixing“ to make concrete

We almost never get original copies from antiquity. The Dead Sea Scrolls being perhaps the most famous exception, but there are others. They're rarely intact. Even what we do have rarely predate ...

Self-healing concrete? Buried Pompeii site reveals secret behind Rome's enduring structures

Archaeologists at a Pompeii site buried by the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius have uncovered evidence of ancient Roman concrete technology that could heal itself over time.
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Researchers Crack the Recipe of Roman Concrete Mix

MIT published news – reportedly solving a riddle that’s questioned the construction culture for decades. Researchers from MIT, Harvard University, and laboratories in Italy and Switzerland have ...
IFLScience

The Secret Of Roman Concrete May Have Been Cracked

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
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Roman Concrete Has Miraculously Held Up for Centuries. Scientists Just Figured Out How.

A newly discovered construction site in Pompeii proves out a theory of why Roman concrete has stood the test of time. The hot-mixing process of concrete creation found in the ancient city was the ...
Ars Technica

Study confirms Romans used “hot mixing“ to make concrete

Many chefs leave out key ingredients because they are secret. It's reasonable that whomever Vitruvius talked to (or he himself) left out ingredients because they were trade secrets. After all, why ...