The Advocate

Baton Rouge teacher whose students built a Roman Road is one of six honored from across the world

Already honored in 2020 as a teacher of the year for Louisiana, Nathalie Roy is now getting recognition on the world stage. Roy is a Latin teacher at Glasgow Middle who has gained recognition via her ...
The Brown Daily Herald

Brown professor awarded prestigious Roman Technology Fellowship by NASA

Assistant Professor of Physics Jonathan Pober was recently awarded NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics to advance his work on a groundbreaking lunar telescope. Pober is one ...
Labroots

Concrete Lessons from the Roman Empire

What can concrete made during the Roman Empire help modern engineering develop more efficient concrete? This is what a recent study published in iScience hopes to address as an international team of ...
CCM

Amazing Technology from the Roman Empire: Wax Tablets

Wax tablets were among the oldest writing media, and scientists have recently uncovered the secrets of their technology. In Ancient Rome, if you needed to write a letter, you wouldn't reach for ...
JSTOR Daily

Vittae Auratae: Interpreting the History and Technology of a Group of Roman Gold Textile Fragments

Pliny the Elder, Natural History, trans. H. Rackham, Loeb Classical Library 394 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1952), 48–49 (33.19.60). 3. Pliny the ...