At first glance, Wuwangdun seemed like another quiet rise in the land outside Huainan in China’s Anhui province. However, ...

How did China’s first emperor move armies across vast distances? The discovery of a major section of the Qin Straight Road sheds new light.

Cultural relics protection authorities in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, are implementing comprehensive measures to protect the iconic Xi'an City Wall from heavy rains linked to climate change, particularly ...

Recent coverage in The Santa Fe New Mexican of the new Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, alongside an article on the Llano Compound, offers a timely reminder: Adobe is far from a ...

In an ever-warming climate, compressed earth blocks technology is helping communities stay cooler in hot highland regions of ...

Panoramic view of the hardened surface in the southern section of the Epang Palace Photo: Courtesy of CASS. Archaeological ...

A lab in Melbourne has developed cardboard-confined rammed earth (CCRE), a composite made using only soil, water and recycled cardboard, which could potentially replace cement, the most polluting ...

A team of engineers may have just shaken up the $500B construction industry with a dirt-cheap material that ditches cement ...

The team of archaeologists led by Dr. Alexander Tamm (FAU, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Prof. Dirk Wicke (Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt) ...

Architects also praise rammed earth’s high thermal mass—insulative properties that regulate a building’s indoor temperature. For U.S practice Lake Flato Architects, this was particularly helpful for a ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth’s mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades, defying reigning theories of how our planet came to be. In a new study ...