China retaliated against newly imposed U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. China announced 15 percent tariffs on American coal and liquefied natural gas and 10 percent on crude oil. The Trump ...

Lead released from smelting in ancient Greece is the world’s first toxic pollution, experts say. More than 60 per cent of the ...

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

Learn why the use of a tiny spoon likely suggests that Germanic communities used psychotropic drugs for battle.

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...

The scroll, found in the Judean desert, has been painstakingly translated from Nabataean, an ancient Arabic language.

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.