Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air thick with lead, scientists found.

The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea, and even sky. During the golden age of Roman ...

Using those modern-day relationships, Dr. McConnell and his team estimated that children across much of the Roman Empire would have had around 2 to 5 additional micrograms of lead, per deciliter ...

Brigantine and Ventnor have come out against a proposed bill that would make clear that no one would need a beach badge to ...

Millions of pounds are to be reallocated from council efforts to fight climate change. Leicestershire County Council’s new ...

Bones found at the site of an ancient fish-processing plant were used to genetically identify the species that went into a ...

It’s up for debate what the big shoes found at Magna mean and that’s an integral part of archaeological research ...

Historian Adrian Goldsworthy reveals the brutal training, bureaucratic grind and uncertain rewards of life in the Roman ...

Researchers think the camp was built during the second century C.E. Stretching across 22 acres, it was identified using a ...

Two men have been sentenced to four years and three months each in prison for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern ...

Taking a look at the past allows us to understand history from a more analytical point of view. If archaeological expeditions did not exist, we would take for granted facts that pe ...

Archaeologists in Manchester, England recently made a major breakthrough hiding barely beneath the surface. A "well-preserved" road built by the Roman empire was reportedly found just over a foot ...