The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea, and even sky. During the golden age of Roman imperialism, air pollution grew so inescapable that researchers now suspect it caused ...

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 ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire Sonja Anderson The 404 coins, including 44 from ...

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 ...

Writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers describe how the ice cores revealed a sharp increase in lead pollution around 15BC after the rise of the Roman empire.

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 German brothers’ fairy tales, in which moral laws are suspended and violence abounds, were no stranger than the ...

Mark Travers, Ph.D., is an American psychologist who writes about psycho-educational topics such as happiness, relationships, personality, and life meaning. He holds degrees from Cornell ...

Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient ...

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