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 Temple of Saturn from ancient Rome. The rise and fall of the Roman Empire shifted the population in the Balkans. Credit: Marcok / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 A recent study, published in the ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also ... were used to map the general changes in the ...

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 ...

Mining and smelting minerals like iron represented technological highs at the Roman Empire’s peak. But those activities also produced enough lead pollution to impair its citizens’ IQs, according to a ...

The early years of the Renaissance were turbulent in Europe. Few places were safe from the political power struggles that ...

Analyses of Arctic ice layers point to concentrations of atmospheric lead at the Roman Empire’s height that were about threefold what they are today in the US. The effect on the intelligence of ...

A Medieval silk bag the size of a clenched fist is revealing previously little-known links between Westminster Abbey and Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate ... were used to map the general changes in the size and number ...

The finding may upend historians' understanding of how Christianity was practiced in the early Roman Empire. Measuring just ... of Saint Titus. Holy, holy, holy! In the name of Jesus Christ ...

The conclave, shrouded in centuries-old tradition and secrecy, stands as one of the most captivating rituals in the Catholic ...

miles beyond the ancient frontiers of the Roman Empire. The discovery was made by Stefan Klein, who immediately reported his findings to government archaeologists in Koblenz. A subsequent ...