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A 2,000-year-old building site reveals the raw ingredients for ancient Roman self-healing concrete
A detail of the neatly aligned ceramic roof tiles and tuff blocks in a newly excavated site in…
A massive eruption 74,000 years ago affected the whole planet – archaeologists use volcanic glass to figure out how people survived
Collecting microscopic glass samples at Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains in South Africa. Katherine Elmes Jayde N.…
Hunga eruption sparked record-setting undersea avalanches
Analysis of seafloor deposits reveals the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption triggered immense underwater currents that scoured the seabed more than 100 kilometers away, burying entire ecosystems in their path.