Some historians have argued that Roman elites and emperors who purportedly displayed odd, often violent behavior like Caligula and Nero were actually suffering from lead poisoning, and thus that ...

Scholars have debated lead poisoning’s impact on Roman history for decades. Some have even argued that lead poisoning played a role in the downfall of the Roman empire. Most of those arguments have ...

Unlike the 20th century, when lead poisoning was primarily due to exposure to leaded gasoline fumes, Roman-era lead exposure was predominantly a byproduct of silver mining.

Lead in the air might have caused an estimated 2.5- to 3-point drop in IQs throughout the Roman Empire, per the research. The new paper doesn’t solve the mystery of whether lead poisoning played ...

Some scholars have hypothesized that lead poisoning played an important role in the decline of the Roman Empire. But that idea has been called into question, at least when it comes to water ...

Roman Empire’s lead pollution ... The study also could add fuel to a fraught and long-standing debate about whether mass lead poisoning could have ... Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire.

DRI scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice cores to identify periods of lead pollution throughout the Roman Empire, and now new research expands on this ...

Lead poisoning may have played a role in the death of fraternal twin babies from 2,000 ... Previous studies have documented the key role played by lead poisoning in the fall of the Roman Empire.

Researchers have gleaned more information from three ancient lead ingots discovered in Cordoba, Spain, that sheds light on ...

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.