The researchers used computer modeling of atmospheric movement to produce maps of lead pollution levels across Europe throughout the time periods. Pollution peaked around 180 BCE, after Roman ...

We took hundreds of soil samples from both sites for chemical analyses, creating high-resolution maps ... Roman period lack solid evidence. "There was a trend in the 1990s, which presented ancient ...

We took hundreds of soil samples from both sites for chemical analyses, creating high-resolution maps ... Roman period lack solid evidence. “There was a trend in the 1990s, which presented ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire ... such as the site of the ancient city of Elusa in ...

If I’m walking along a street and I spot an unexplored alleyway, then I explore it. The older parts of London are a ...

This is the conclusion of a new study which overturns a decades-old hypothesis about the harms of ancient smelting practices ... to create high-resolution maps of local heavy metal presence.

The scorched scroll was one of hundreds discovered in the remains of a luxury Roman villa in Herculeaneum ... is poised to reshape how we see the ancient world. Artificial neural networks are ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing unprecedented 3D details of interstellar dust and gas. The space between stars is ...

Benjamin was a generally unhappy, unlucky and unwell man. He was also the most original thinker of modernity, obsessed with ...

New research challenges the decades-old myth that ancient mines were environmentally hazardous sites. The researchers from ...

His thoughts on the legendary war—documented in Homer’s two epic poems—were prompted by an online controversy over Emily ...