Hanno is defined by the film’s most formidable character, Macrinus, played by the Mephistophelean Denzel Washington, as a ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air thick with lead, scientists found.

The Roman Empire lowered IQ levels across Europe according to a new study, due to the vast quantities of lead pollution.

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

Lead pollution from Roman mining and metal production may have lowered intelligence levels across the vast Roman Empire ...

A new study turned to Arctic ice core records between 500 BCE through 600 CE to find a link between lead pollution and ...

Lead exposure has left its toxic fingerprints all over history. We’ve come a long way in reducing its presence, but […] ...

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

The biblical narrative of Herod’s decision to butcher some 3,000 innocent children inspired Rennaissance and Baroque artists ...

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 ...

Our teaching and research focus on intercultural interactions, imperialism and religion in the Ancient Mediterranean ... Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Empire, Iran and Central Asia, the ...