Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea ...

His name had a second coming. Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — ...

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

Recently, a papyrus was unearthed from the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority. It offers rare insights into ...

following the rise of the Roman Empire—and remained relatively high ... "While our findings suggest that lead poisoning from background air pollution was not acute especially compared to other ...

One thousand six hundred years ago, in a city named after the famous emperor Hadrian, bored Roman soldiers spent their free ...

In the paper, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, it was concluded that the levels of background ... throughout the Roman Empire". Image: An ice sample ...

People living during the golden age of the Roman Empire experienced an average ... micrograms per deciliter (2.4 mcg/dl above Neolithic background levels), from air pollution alone, and that ...

In ancient Rome, lead was widely used in glazed table wares, paints, cosmetics, and was intentionally ingested as well as being present in air pollution from mining and smelting.

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