Hussain Didi via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Did lead poisoning contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire? It’s a question historians have long debated, since the Romans sweetened ...

In 1972 a team of expert MIT scientists used a computer model to predict when society would collapse. Here's some indicators into what they found and when they think there will be a societal collapse.

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

A recent study challenges conventional ideas about the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire. Contrary to popular belief, natural disasters and epidemics may not have been the main causes of the decline ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have unearthed a stash of Roman gold coins dating back some 1,600 years. The coins are marked ...

The straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence of a ...

The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the collapse of the Roman Empire. Some historians have argued that Roman ...

The study also could add fuel to a fraught and long-standing debate about whether mass lead poisoning could have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. “Ancient texts and archaeological ...

The researchers used advanced atmospheric modeling to correlate lead levels in the Arctic with historical mining activities, further substantiating the link between industrial emissions and cognitive ...