Scientists are exploring the role of lead pollution in the decline of the Roman Empire, proposing that chronic lead exposure from plumbing, wine, and cosmetics led to cognitive decline, infertility, ...

While lead poisoning through contaminated food and ... increase in lead pollution around 15BC after the rise of the Roman empire. The levels then remained high until the decline of the Pax Romana ...

Analyses of Arctic ice layers point to concentrations of atmospheric lead at the Roman Empire’s height that were about threefold what they are today in the US. The effect on the intelligence of ...

may have led to cognitive decline in the citizens of the Roman Empire. Lead pollution around this time may also have had some effect on marine microorganisms, and researchers from the new study ...

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

Childhood lead exposure is not quite yet a problem of the past. That said, there is much that caregivers can do to reduce the ...

Industrial pollution has been having a negative impact on human health since the height of the Roman Empire, reveals new research. Lead pollution likely caused widespread IQ declines throughout ...

This Roman lead drain pipe ("plumbaria") was found at ... is that they go hand in hand with drainage systems of the Roman Empire, which is obviously very important, toilets and baths.

The presence of lead in things like gasoline and paint ... B.C.E. to 180 C.E. They found that average lead exposure in the Roman Empire was approximately one-third what it was in the United ...

These lead sling-bolts were found ... Sling-bolts were in use by the Roman army from Republican times through the height of the Roman Empire. The sling-bolts are all of approximately the same ...