Scientists are exploring the role of lead pollution in the decline of the Roman Empire, proposing that chronic lead exposure ...

Some have even argued that lead poisoning played a role in the downfall of the Roman empire. Most of those arguments have focused on ancient writings and archeology that provide hints about lead’s ...

The presence of lead in things like gasoline and paint up until the 1970s presented a bevy of problems for Americans, not the ...

Roman Empire's Air Pollution May Have Lowered The ... is known to have various adverse effects on human health, and lead poisoning can cause damage to the nervous and cardiovascular systems ...

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

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 presence of lead in things like gasoline and paint ... B.C.E. to 180 C.E. They found that average lead exposure in the Roman Empire was approximately one-third what it was in the United ...