Arctic ice cores uncover how Roman lead pollution led to widespread IQ declines over 2,000 years ago, revealing impacts on ...

Lead pollution from Roman mining and metal production may have lowered intelligence levels across the vast Roman Empire nearly 2,000 years ago, new research suggests. Scientists from the Desert ...

Did lead poisoning contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire? It’s a question historians have long debated, since the Romans sweetened their wine with lead acetate and sipped tap water that flowed ...

This is the conclusion of a new study which overturns a decades-old hypothesis about the harms of ancient smelting practices ... the concentration of lead—the primary pollutant in metal ...

New research finds that pollution from ancient silver and lead mining during the Roman Empire resulted in lowered intelligence across Europe.