Scientists are exploring the role of lead pollution in the decline of the Roman Empire, proposing that chronic lead exposure ...

Arctic ice cores uncover how Roman lead pollution led to widespread IQ declines over 2,000 years ago, revealing impacts on ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire as its coin-based currency ... the scientists were able to estimate how much lead pollution was being released across Europe at the time: 3 million ...

Extensive silver mining may have exposed ancient Romans to high levels of lead pollution in the air ... of atmospheric lead at the Roman Empire’s height that were about threefold what they ...

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The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the collapse of the Roman Empire. Some historians have argued that Roman ...

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.

Industrial pollution has been having a negative impact on human health since the Roman Empire, research involving Oxford University has found. A study found lead pollution likely caused widespread ...