Industrial pollution has been having a negative impact on human health since the Roman Empire, new research shows.

Christmas is celebrated by the Russian, Georgian, Jerusalemite, Polish and Serbian Orthodox churches, the Athos monasteries in Greece, as well as the Eastern Catholic Church and the Old Believers ...

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive ...

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research ...

The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...

Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects, the international team calculates that lead exposure in the ...

Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by pollution from metal ...

Exposure to lead from mining probably lowered I.Q. levels in the empire, research has found. It might be the world’s first ...

The Romans invented concrete, aqueducts, and the basis of the modern calendar. But their achievements could have been even ...

Lead pollution might sound like a modern problem, but people were subjected to significant levels during antiquity, too.

Researchers examined three ice core records to identify lead pollution levels in the Arctic between 500 BC to 600 AD.

The city of Rome was the beating heart of the Roman Empire, which spanned from the rise of Augustus in around 27 BCE until ...