The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

The devastating health effects of lead exposure are well-documented, even at low levels. Modern studies highlight how lead ...

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 ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and disease ... which were made up of tens of thousands of ...

Researchers have said the massive expansion of mining and the processing of metal ores in particular caused airborne lead pollution to soar during the peak of the empire, leading to an estimated 2 ...

Scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice cores to identify periods of lead pollution throughout the Roman Empire ... then produced maps of atmospheric ...

The mass production of silver coins in the Roman Empire had an unintended effect ... computer modeling of atmospheric movement to produce maps of lead pollution levels across Europe throughout ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

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Researchers sought to investigate lead’s role in population control and disease in the Ancient Roman Empire, which was indebted ... movement to create maps of the lead pollution levels across ...

DRI scientists used Arctic ice core records to reconstruct historic atmospheric lead pollution in Ancient Rome and link ... lead pollution throughout the Roman Empire, and now new research expands ...