Pompeii's ruins challenge Rome's famous concrete recipe

Pompeii's ruins challenge Rome's famous concrete recipe The empire's most famous architect may have had it wrong. 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 endured for thousands of years. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. For once, new research on the ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii is not focusing on the destructive aftermath of the infamous Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE. Instead, it centers on the creative acts preceding it.