Roman concrete has shrugged off two millennia of earthquakes, wars, and weather that would pulverize most modern structures in a fraction of the time. The surprising reason is not mystical at all, but ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have ...

The mysterious Lycurgus Cup is a convincing artifact indicating that, possibly unbeknownst to them, the ancient Romans used nanotechnology.

A $2.3 million restoration is using advanced laser technology to clean and preserve the 1,840-year-old Rome’s Column of Marcus Aurelius.

Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered the secrets of their technology. In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for ...

An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The ...

In a city filled to the brim with iconic buildings of both the ancient and not-so-ancient variety, the Colosseum of Rome stands apart from the rest. The ancient stadium, an arched, elliptical arena, ...

Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...

As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...