The Romans oversaw one of the largest and most important empires in history – these are the most extraordinary treasures they ...

that once hosted a Roman fortress Eli Wizevich Experts think the well-preserved bronze artifact was made between 500 and 450 B.C.E. It will be sold at auction on January 25 Sonja Anderson The ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire as its coin-based currency accelerated trade, filled tax coffers and funded military conquests. But the empire’s mining and extracting of silver was ...

But, despite this, there are still many in academia who claim that changes to the climate and the outbreak of plague were catastrophic for the eastern Roman Empire. Our research, which was ...

The Roman Empire lowered IQ levels across Europe according to a new study, due to the vast quantities of lead pollution churned out by the booming metals industry. Researchers have said the massive ...

A huge hoard of 1,368 coins has been discovered by a metal detectorist in Worcestershire, England. The mostly silver ...

Hussain Didi via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Did lead poisoning contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire? It’s a question historians have long debated, since the Romans sweetened ...

Wikander, 575-604. Leiden: Brill. Bruun, C. 2012. “Roman Emperors and Legislation on Public Water Use in the Roman Empire: Clarifications and Problems.” Water History 4:11-33. Campbell, B. 2012.

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.

What was life like in ancient Rome? Find out how Rome began, learn about different Roman emperors and discover what people in Rome did for fun. What was life like in the Roman army? Learn about ...

The mass production of silver coins in the Roman Empire had an unintended effect: spewing so much lead into the atmosphere that it may have lowered citizens’ IQs. The Roman Empire was more lead ...