The surprising artifact could be evidence of fertility rituals—or just one of history’s strangest good luck charms.

A search for a rumored Roman estate in Germany led archaeologists to something much larger: the ruins of an ancient Roman ...

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

In today’s health headlines, what we learn about lead poisoning from ancient Rome. Also, putting the first bird flu death ...

The mass production of silver coins in the Roman Empire had an unintended effect: spewing so much lead into the atmosphere ...

Ellen Green, a postgraduate researcher with the University of Reading, analyzed “Quarry 1” from the Nescot site and found “it ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome likely dropped the average IQ, a study found. The research is based on an analysis of ice ...

Learn how researchers examined lead levels in ice cores dating back to the Roman Empire, and found concentrations high enough ...

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

Pompeipolis, an ancient Roman city in Türkiye's Black Sea region, is gaining global attention and is set to become a major ...

A bio-archaeologist with the University of Reading, in the U.K., has found an ancient dog's red-painted penis bone along with ...

DRI scientists analyzed Arctic ice core records to reconstruct historical atmospheric lead pollution from Ancient Rome, ...