Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...

Did lead poisoning contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire? It’s a question historians have long debated, since the Romans ...

The Western Roman Empire stumbled on for a few more decades ... Another bodily fluid fact that’s wheeled out in children’s books to get kids interested in history – this one sadly isn't true. The ...

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The Temple of Saturn from ancient Rome. The rise and fall of the Roman Empire shifted the population in the Balkans. Credit: Marcok / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 A recent study, published in the ...

A key Catholic policy group in New York state is praising Gov. Kathy Hochul for her proposed expansion of the state's child ...

The spread of Christianity was made a lot easier by the efficiency of the Roman Empire, but its principles were sometimes misunderstood and membership of the sect could be dangerous. Although ...

Families were dominated by men. At the head of Roman family life was the oldest living male, called the "paterfamilias," or "father of the family." He looked after the family's business affairs ...

Using Arctic ice core samples, researchers estimate silver mining and smelting released enough lead during the Pax Romana to cause a 2.5- to 3-point drop in IQ Sarah Kuta In addition to the 1,800 ...

Let's find out. Do you have some gaming resolutions for 2025? We do, and so do some of our PG Gamer Forum members. Here's how ...

Diocletian's edict highlights the deep outrage he and and his imperial colleagues felt at the rampant inflation that had engulfed the Roman empire for much of the third century. Inflation eroded the ...

The finding may upend historians' understanding of how Christianity was practiced in the early Roman Empire. Measuring just 1.4 inches (3.5 centimeters) long, the amulet contains a wafer-thin ...