Scientists are exploring the role of lead pollution in the decline of the Roman Empire, proposing that chronic lead exposure ...
Arctic ice cores uncover how Roman lead pollution led to widespread IQ declines over 2,000 years ago, revealing impacts on ...
The study also could add fuel to a fraught and long-standing debate about whether mass lead poisoning could have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. “Ancient texts and archaeological ...
A new study suggests that widespread lead pollution during the Roman Empire may have contributed to a significant decline in ...
Analyses of Arctic ice layers point to concentrations of atmospheric lead at the Roman Empire’s height that were about threefold what they are today in the US. The effect on the intelligence of ...
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Scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice cores to identify periods of lead pollution throughout the Roman Empire, and now new research expands on this ...
Exposure to lead from mining probably lowered I.Q. levels in the empire, research has found. It might be the world’s first ...
The presence of lead in things like gasoline and paint up until the 1970s presented a bevy of problems for Americans, not the ...