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 ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire as its coin-based currency ... the scientists were able to estimate how much lead pollution was being released across Europe at the time: 3 million ...

That’s 1,200 years older than the previous earliest recorded lead pollution, which was found ... said Koutsodendris. Later the Roman Empire used lead for tableware and for construction ...

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.

Mined in Derbyshire and smelted during a period of Roman occupationGalena, the ore of lead, was mined in Derbyshire from the Bronze Age. Romans worked lead ore in Derbyshire where it was smelted ...