Exploring the Colosseum’s role in ancient Rome, we’ll see how culture, politics, and architecture intertwined. The Colosseum ...

In 2015, archaeologists working at a site called Nescot in the town of Ewell, roughly 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of ...

Using Arctic ice core samples, researchers estimate silver mining and smelting released enough lead during the Pax Romana to ...

Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before ...

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

Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive development of children. Scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution ...

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

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

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

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

The "Ringed Lady" of Herculaneum is one of the most important discoveries from the ancient city that was buried by the ...

From Jubilee celebrations and Europe's largest free live music concert to an open-air opera festival and a key appointment ...