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

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

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

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

Edward “Ted” James Champlin, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of classics, emeritus, died of ...

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 ...

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

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

Stretching from the windswept Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland down to North Africa, and from Portugal to the Middle East, ...

Civilization VII, if it’s anything like past games in the 4X strategy series, will play just fine with a single mouse in one ...

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