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NASA reveals plan to map the Milky Way with Roman Space Telescope

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on one of the most ambitious space projects in history, unveiling ...

Pompeii offers insights into ancient Roman building technology

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...
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NASA finishes the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, completing assembly of the agency’s next flagship ...

Pompeii archaeology breakthrough as experts make fascinating building discovery

Yet, everything changed when archaeologists uncovered a remarkably preserved construction site in Pompeii. Buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the site had retained raw material piles, ...
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 ...

A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete

Roman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It's among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hindustan Times

AI just cracked the code: Ancient Roman messages erased for centuries are finally revealed

Centuries after the Roman Empire left its mark across, many of its stories still sit locked inside damaged stone and pottery. In recent years, researchers faced the daunting problem of reading ancient ...