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 ...
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In a Remote Egyptian Port, Roman Officers May Have Proven Their Status by Owning Exotic ...

Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...
Popular Science

The Roman Britons cared a lot about hair removal, and it shows in artifacts

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Ancient Romans were apparently staunch believers that “pain is ...
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Roman Emperors Were More Likely Than Gladiators to Die Gruesome Deaths

Emperors of ancient Rome tended to die bloody, violent deaths. In fact, a Roman gladiator had better odds of surviving a brutal fight in the arena than an emperor had of dying peacefully of natural ...
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We Finally Know Why Roman Concrete Has Survived For Nearly 2,000 Years

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...
New Atlas

Complete ancient Roman city mapped using ground-penetrating radar

An international team of researchers has mapped the entirety of an ancient, buried Roman city known as Falerii Novi using radar scanning technology. The researchers unraveled the secrets of the city, ...

All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.
The Economist

Roman civil engineering has lessons for the modern world

The Romans were master builders. Many of their works, from the Pantheon (pictured above) and the Colosseum in Rome itself, to the Pont du Gard in southern Gaul and the equally impressive aqueduct of ...
Live Science

Ancient Roman residences with 'pigeon towers' discovered in Luxor, Egypt

Archaeologists have discovered a residential area in Luxor dating to the time when the Roman Empire ruled Egypt. A team of archaeologists from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities found a ...
SpaceNews

Roman Mission Gears Up For A Torrent Of Future Data

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge of data the mission will return. Recently selected infrastructure teams ...
SpaceRef

NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up to Investigate Dark Energy

The ESA Euclid (left) and NASA Roman space telescope, shown together in this artist’s concept, will explore the cosmic mystery of dark energy in complementary ways. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...
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NASA’s Roman mission gears up for a torrent of future data

This animation shows a simulation of the type of science that astronomers will be able to do with future deep field observations from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The gravity of ...