A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete
- Written by Ray Laurence, Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University
A detail of the neatly aligned ceramic roof tiles and tuff blocks in a newly excavated site in Pompeii, documenting the storage of building materials during renovation. Archaeological Park of PompeiiRoman concrete is pretty amazing stuff. It’s among the main reasons we know so much about Roman architecture today. So many structures built by...





