Roman generals gifted kittens and piglets to their pet monkeys

While archaeologists have previously documented a few similar examples of ancient Roman pet monkeys elsewhere, they ...

Pompeii’s ruins challenge Rome’s famous concrete recipe

Isotopic analysis confirmed that the workers in Pompeii relied on hot-mixing when making their concrete. Samples from the ...
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Scientists found the secret to Roman concrete in a half-finished Pompeii living room

Concrete was the foundation of the Roman Empire. For centuries, researchers have tried to uncover the secret behind the ...
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In a Remote Egyptian Port, Roman Officers May Have Proven Their Status by Owning Exotic Monkeys From India

Berenike was an isolated, windswept outpost. It linked the Roman Empire to the trade routes of India, Arabia, and East Africa ...
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We Finally Know Why Roman Concrete Has Survived For Nearly 2,000 Years

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...
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Ancient Roman concrete could heal itself? New Pompeii evidence shows a key step scholars missed

Long dismissed as poor construction, ‘self-healing’ lime clasts have helped Ancient Roman structures persist for millennia.
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Roman Emperors Were More Likely Than Gladiators to Die Gruesome Deaths

Emperors of ancient Rome tended to die bloody, violent deaths. In fact, a Roman gladiator had better odds of surviving a brutal fight in the arena than an emperor had of dying peacefully of natural ...
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Ancient Roman residences with 'pigeon towers' discovered in Luxor, Egypt

Archaeologists have discovered a residential area in Luxor dating to the time when the Roman Empire ruled Egypt. A team of archaeologists from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities found a ...

All 187,460 Miles of Road That Led to Rome, Mapped

A digital atlas of ancient Rome’s highways and byways reveals a road network that was more extensive than thought.
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NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up to Investigate Dark Energy

The ESA Euclid (left) and NASA Roman space telescope, shown together in this artist’s concept, will explore the cosmic mystery of dark energy in complementary ways. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...
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Roman Mission Gears Up For A Torrent Of Future Data

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge of data the mission will return. Recently selected infrastructure teams ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is complete

If you feel a thrill every time we discover something new about the cosmos, then November 25th may have been a noteworthy day ...