People living during the golden age of the Roman Empire experienced an average 2.5 to 3 point reduction in IQ due to atmospheric lead, according to a study published January 6 in the journal ...

Roman Empire’s lead pollution was high enough to lower IQs, study says. Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the ...

Lead poisoning may have played a role in the death of fraternal twin babies from 2,000 ... Previous studies have documented the key role played by lead poisoning in the fall of the Roman Empire.

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen chunks of glacier further underscore the 6th century ice age’s ...

Researchers have gleaned more information from three ancient lead ingots discovered in Cordoba, Spain, that sheds light on ...