Using Arctic ice core samples, researchers estimate silver mining and smelting released enough lead during the Pax Romana to ...

Lead pollution might sound like a modern problem, but people were subjected to significant levels during antiquity, too.

The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Tetrarchic boundary stone at the site of Abel Beth Maacah in northern Israel. Originally ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the ...

Edward “Ted” James Champlin, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus, and professor of classics, emeritus, died of ...

Regions of Germany that were under Roman rule approximately 2,000 years ago exhibit higher levels of psychological well-being ...

Yield Fall of Rome is a new Steam Early Access 4X game with shades of Civilization and Polytopia, and it's available to play right now.

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air ...