Ellen Green, a postgraduate researcher with the University of Reading, analyzed “Quarry 1” from the Nescot site and found “it ...

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

The remains suggest that the settlement dates ... were primarily focused on military activities. At that time, the Roman Empire was still in its infancy. Augustus — the first Emperor of Rome ...

THE remains of a man believed to be from "year 0" have been discovered inside a unique Roman grave. A clever team of archaeologists unearthed the more than 2,000-year-old find in the Netherlands ...

But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise ...

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

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions ...

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its soldiers. At the core of the army were its legions, which were without equal in their training, discipline and fighting ability. By the time ...

In the Neckargartach district of Heilbronn, in southwestern Germany, a 500-meter-long section of Roman road and various ...

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

Learn how researchers examined lead levels in ice cores dating back to the Roman Empire, and found concentrations high enough ...