The Debrief

“This Material Can Heal Itself Over Thousands of Years”: MIT Scientists Have Deciphered the Ancient Mystery of Roman Concrete

MIT scientists have used modern technology to unravel the mysterious self-healing properties of ancient Roman concrete.
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 ...
Brandeis University

Thinking like the Romans

Rome, as they say, wasn’t built in a day. But it was built with great imagination and engineering brio. From elegantly simple pulleys to arches, aqueducts, and catapults, the Romans harnessed and ...
The Advocate

Old, new (and smelly) mix in new Roman Technology class at Baton Rouge middle school

Nathalie Roy has fused her passion for Latin with her interest in the wonders of the ancient world. The result is something new: a class in Roman Technology. This unlikely elective course open to ...
JSTOR Daily

How Did the Romans Do That? Or Teaching Roman Technology in the Secondary School Classroom

The Classical Outlook, Vol. 93, No. 4 (2018), pp. 135-145 (11 pages) Corporals Corner. “How to Make Roman Concrete,” YouTube video, 18:45, July 30, 2017, https ...
Labroots

Concrete Lessons from the Roman Empire

What can concrete made during the Roman Empire help modern engineering develop more efficient concrete? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as an international team of ...
La Brújula Verde

A 1,700-Year-Old Portable Roman Steelyard Balance Found in Leptis Magna in Northwestern Libya

An Egyptian-Libyan research team offers an in-depth analysis of an ancient Roman bronze steelyard balance, revealing its advanced manufacturing techniques and the ravages of time after centuries ...