"A 2 to 3 points lower IQ doesn't sound like much, but when you apply that to the entire European population, it's quite a ...

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 ...

New research finds that pollution from ancient silver and lead mining during the Roman Empire resulted in lowered ...

A study analyzing Arctic ice cores reveals that lead pollution during the Roman Empire's height contributed to an estimated 2 ...

Twenty-six years and two days after being acquired by the White Sox on waivers in 1941, Joe Haynes died of a heart attack ...

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