Elon Musk declared he is "rewriting history books" with AI research into ancient Rome. The technology billionaire announced significant funding for digital heritage projects focused on the classical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colosseum Archeological Park guide Valentina uses a head-mounted device to livestream a guided tour for the press of the ...

Ancient Roman concrete's remarkable durability is being studied through a 1,900-year-old toilet. This material contains calcite which forms a web-like network binding everything together. This slow ...

In a recent study, rare wooden structures from the Roman Empire were investigated in a wide range of ways using NMR methods. These methods, widely known for their use in hospital MRI scans to produce ...

Twenty-seven kilometers east of Rome sit the remains of a communal latrine whose concrete has endured for nearly 2,000 years. Now this humble latrine, part of Emperor Hadrian’s sprawling ...

Archaeologists working at an excavation site in Pompeii have uncovered new evidence that helps explain why ancient Roman buildings have lasted for thousands of years. The discovery points to a special ...

The dome of the Pantheon in Rome is one of the most famous examples of ancient Roman engineering.

New research showed that carbonation helped densify Roman concrete and repair fine cracks naturally, revealing ancient ...

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 ...

One of the best-preserved ancient Roman homes on the Palatine Hill is opening to the public for the first time, albeit via a livestreamed tour of its hard-to-reach underground frescoes and mosaics.