Scientists are exploring the role of lead pollution in the decline of the Roman Empire, proposing that chronic lead exposure from plumbing, wine, and cosmetics led to cognitive decline, infertility, ...

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 ...

Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by pollution from metal smelting during the Roman era ...

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

While lead poisoning through contaminated food and ... increase in lead pollution around 15BC after the rise of the Roman empire. The levels then remained high until the decline of the Pax Romana ...

may have led to cognitive decline in the citizens of the Roman Empire. Lead pollution around this time may also have had some effect on marine microorganisms, and researchers from the new study ...

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The ...

AP Later the Roman Empire used lead for tableware and for construction, including pipes. Previous research – including an analysis of ice cores from Greenland – had detected high levels of ...

Childhood lead exposure is not quite yet a problem of the past. That said, there is much that caregivers can do to reduce the ...

Societal exposures date well back, with evidence in the Roman Empire of silver-mining projects ... made since 2018 in reducing childhood lead poisoning. It described various removal projects ...