The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

Did lead poisoning contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire? It’s a question historians have long debated, since the Romans ...

Regions of Germany that were under Roman rule approximately 2,000 years ago exhibit higher levels of psychological well-being ...

Lead pollution might sound like a modern problem, but people were subjected to significant levels during antiquity, too.

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

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

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

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

Learn how researchers examined lead levels in ice cores dating back to the Roman Empire, and found concentrations high enough ...

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