By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.

Ancient DNA evidence shows that the advent of agriculture led to more infectious disease among humans, with pathogens from ...

A common whiff in the Roman city would have come from the animals and the waste they created. Roman bakeries frequently used ...

Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, a new study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s downfall.

A further spike in levels of human-caused lead pollution was observed about 2,150 years ago. This period saw the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Aegean region, which hosted some of the ...

Lead pollution levels surged around 2,150 years ago, a period that coincides with the Roman conquest of Greece. By analyzing pollen samples within the sediment cores, researchers were able to ...

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

This required smelting, which released lead, said Koutsodendris. Later, the Roman Empire used lead for tableware and for construction, including pipes.

The findings suggest that lead pollution due to human activities began approximately 1,200 years earlier than previously thought, and that the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Aegean region ...

Later the Roman Empire used lead for tableware and for construction, including pipes.

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the ...

Later the Roman Empire used lead for tableware and for construction, including pipes. Previous research – including an analysis of ice cores from Greenland – had detected high levels of lead ...