New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...

A flock of grazing sheep is helping archaeologists to preserve the ancient ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was buried under meters of pumice and ash in the calamitous eruption of Mount Vesuvius ...

POMPEII, Italy, March 9 (Reuters) - A flock of grazing sheep is helping archaeologists to preserve the ancient ruins of Pompeii, the Roman city that was buried under metres of pumice and ash in the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed extraordinary new frescoes and rooms at Villa Poppaea in Pompeii. These finds include a near-complete peahen fresco, theatrical mask fragments, and rooms potentially ...

A forgotten stone staircase in the ruins of Pompeii has turned out to be anything but a dead end, opening a fresh line of ...

ROME, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Archaeologists have discovered the exceptionally well-preserved remains of two men scalded to death by the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii ...

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The grisly remains of a master and his slave in their final death throes have been discovered amid the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The skeletal remains of what are believed to have ...

Remains of two men who died in the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient Roman city of Pompeii are discovered Remains of two men who died in the volcanic eruption that destroyed the ancient ...

Bound to sit by his chimney until he died, Herman Melville’s narrator in his short story “I and My Chimney” was, in a very real sense, buried alive — a condition intensified by the similarity of the ...