The Mystery Finally Solved: Why Has Roman Concrete Been So Durable?
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The Mystery Finally Solved: Why Has Roman Concrete Been So Durable?
Image by Benjaminec, via Wikimedia Commons Rome may not have been built in a day, but it was built to last — or at least its concrete was, given that the pieces of the Roman Empire that have stood to our time, in one form or another, tend to have been built with it.