Neglect a modern concrete structure for a few decades and it’ll start to fall apart – and yet, structures built by the ancient Romans are still standing strong after 2,000 years. Now, engineers have ...

For centuries, engineers and historians have puzzled over one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world. Why have Roman buildings survived earthquakes, storms and nearly two millennia of wear ...

Concrete is an incredibly useful and versatile building material on which not only today’s societies, but also the ancient Roman Empire was built. To this day Roman concrete structures can be found in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Roman concrete is incredibly durable, even more so than modern concrete. Scientists have long wondered what gave it its ...

Ancient Roman harbors, breakwaters, and aqueducts have survived roughly two thousand years of saltwater, earthquakes, and neglect. Modern Portland-cement concrete, by contrast, often begins to crack ...

Scientists have long pondered the durability of ancient Roman concrete structures, which have not only stood the test of time but have held up under extreme conditions, assuming it came down to a ...

(Image: Drilling out a sample of an ancient Roman concrete structure in Portus Cosanus, Tuscany, in 2003.) Ancient Roman concrete was more durable than any developed before or since. "It's the most ...

The Pantheon in Rome is seen in August 2017. The ancient Romans perfected their concrete mix — one that gets stronger with time — around 30 B.C. (Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images) Is there anyone ...

Around A.D. 79, Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote in his Naturalis Historia that concrete structures in harbors, exposed to the constant assault of the saltwater waves, become "a single stone mass, ...