Hot, warm and cold baths in a recently uncovered villa offer a new glimpse of life in the city before it was smothered by ...

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

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive ...

Researchers uncovered a 13,000-year-old sandstone model in France’s Ségognole 3 rock shelter, possibly the world’s oldest 3D ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Pompeipolis, an ancient Roman city in Türkiye's Black Sea region, is gaining global attention and is set to become a major ...

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive development of children. Scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

A new study turned to Arctic ice core records between 500 BCE through 600 CE to find a link between lead pollution and ...

The mass production of silver coins in the Roman Empire had an unintended effect: spewing so much lead into the atmosphere ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate ... were used to map the general changes in the size and number ...

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