The Roman emperors were once the most famous people in the world, ruling over an empire that stretched between what are now ...

Archaeologists uncover 2,000-year-old private spa complex thought to be the most elaborate ever found in the ancient Roman ...

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

A hoard of Roman coins dating from the Fourth century and covering the reign of nine emperors has been found in northern ...

After examination, the Troya Museum determined that the coin dates back to the 10th century CE and belongs to the Eastern ...

Archaeologists in Luxembourg have discovered a lavish 1,700-year-old hoard of Roman gold coins that had been placed near the ...

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

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air ...

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

But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise ...