Two thousand years ago, the Roman Empire hummed with activity. Roads stretched like arteries, connecting distant provinces.

“Our data suggests that lead pollution during the 180 years of the peak of the Roman Empire had about one-third as much of an impact on cognitive decline as during the height of 20th century ...

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.

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researc… ...

Finally, they compared links between modern lead pollution and health outcomes like childhood blood levels and cognitive decline to determine the likely impact lead pollution made during the height of ...

Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by pollution from metal smelting during the Roman era By Christa Lesté-Lasserre 6 January 2025 ...

Timeline of lead pollution and its impact on the Roman empire Iron age (around 500 BCE) Lead pollution starts to increase as metals, especially lead, begin to be used on a large scale.

DRI scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice cores to identify periods of lead pollution throughout the Roman Empire, and now new research expands on this ...

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 ...

To reach this conclusion, the researchers used sophisticated computer modeling to move backward and forward in time. Once they determined lead levels in ice cores matching the years of the Roman ...

Roman Empire’s lead pollution was high enough to lower IQs: Study. The findings would make the roughly 200-year span of Pax Romana one of the earliest examples of industrial pollution.