Lead poisoning: Widespread exposure to lead led to the poisoning of many Romans, although it was primarily the wealthy, who ...

Some historians have argued that Roman elites and emperors who purportedly displayed odd, often violent behavior like Caligula and Nero were actually suffering from lead poisoning, and thus that ...

Roman Empire’s lead pollution ... The study also could add fuel to a fraught and long-standing debate about whether mass lead poisoning could have ... Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire.

Scholars have debated lead poisoning’s impact on Roman history for decades. Some have even argued that lead poisoning played a role in the downfall of the Roman empire. Most of those arguments have ...

Some scholars have hypothesized that lead poisoning played an important role in the decline of the Roman Empire. But that idea has been called into question, at least when it comes to water ...

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Lead in the air might have caused an estimated 2.5- to 3-point drop in IQs throughout the Roman Empire, per the research. The new paper doesn’t solve the mystery of whether lead poisoning played ...

A cache of Roman-era lead ingots has been unearthed by workers laying a gas pipeline in northern Cordoba, Spain, shedding new light on the empire’s trade in the toxic metal that some say may be ...

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air thick with lead, scientists found.

Lead poisoning: Widespread exposure to lead led to the poisoning of many Romans, although it was primarily the wealthy, who used lead pipes and utensils, that suffered.

Roman Empire’s lead pollution was high enough to ... The study also could add fuel to a fraught and long-standing debate whether mass lead poisoning could have contributed to the fall of the ...