The Roman Empire was a force unlike any other, shaping the ancient world through innovation, conquest, and culture. This ...

A hoard of Roman coins dating from the Fourth century and covering the reign of nine emperors has been found in northern ...

Arctic ice cores uncover how Roman lead pollution led to widespread IQ declines over 2,000 years ago, revealing impacts on ...

Scientists are exploring the role of lead pollution in the decline of the Roman Empire, proposing that chronic lead exposure ...

Archaeologists recently concluded their excavation of an area in Luxembourg that contained a hoard of 141 ancient Roman coins, now worth six figures in modern U.S. dollars.

Hanno is defined by the film’s most formidable character, Macrinus, played by the Mephistophelean Denzel Washington, as a ...

A team of archaeologists recently discovered a hoard of 141 Roman gold coins dating back to around the Fourth Century CE in ...

But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise ...

The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...

It’s an idea that has lasted until the modern day. The UK has its own generous pensions for state workers and some 17.2m ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air ...

Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...