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 ...

Researchers will mine data from NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which will survey the same areas of the sky every ...

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researc… ...

Learn how researchers examined lead levels in ice cores dating back to the Roman Empire, and found concentrations high enough to affect IQs.

They found that lead emissions shot up around 15 BCE, soon after the rise of the Roman Empire, and dipped around 165–180 CE with the end of Pax Romana.

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

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

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

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 ...

The Mystery of the Lead Pipes in the Rhône Another puzzle solved is that of the large lead pipes discovered in the 19th century in the bed of the Rhône. For decades, archaeologists debated whether ...