When excavators stepped into a half-finished living room in Pompeii, they were not just walking into a frozen renovation, ...

Thirty years ago this week, a reactor explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in the former Soviet Union resulted in the worst peacetime nuclear disaster in human history. Due to high radiation levels, ...

The concrete of ancient Rome was notoriously strong. Many of the buildings, bridges, and aqueducts built by the Romans still ...

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

MIT researchers discovered in a half-renovated Pompeii home that Roman builders used a high-heat “hot mixing” technique, ...

Pink Floyd offers fans quite a few items to be excited about in the new Wish You Were Here 50 box set, commemorating the ...

New research shows Roman concrete relied on heat-driven mixing and reactive lime, giving it a surprising self-healing ability ...

Poland detained a Russian archaeologist who works on an ancient site in Crimea, which Russia seized in 2014. Ukraine calls ...

Knights of Columbus take a photo after the Second District Exemplification of the Fourth Degree celebrated Nov. 22 at Our ...

Poland has detained a Russian archaeologist whom Ukraine accuses of unauthorised excavation and plundering historical ...

Pompeii Archeological Park site map, with showing where the ancient building site is located, with colour coded piles of raw construction materials (right): purple: debris; green: piles of dry ...

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA, SILVIA STELLACCI and NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — Italian food is known and loved around the world for ...