Families were dominated by men. At the head of Roman family life was the oldest living male, called the "paterfamilias," or "father of the family." He looked after the family's business affairs ...
Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...
Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air ...
More than 1,500 years after its collapse in A.D. 476, the Roman Empire has seen a resurgence in the unlikeliest of settings — social media. Online users, predominantly on the video-sharing app ...
The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...
The Roman Empire lowered IQ levels across Europe according to a new study, due to the vast quantities of lead pollution.