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Drone photographs taken of a 3,000-year-old “mega fortress” nestled deep in the Caucasus Mountains reveal the settlement is ...

People living during the golden age of the Roman Empire experienced an average 2. ... skeletal remains, and ancient infrastructure. But the study is unique for quantifying the effects of that ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome may have dropped the average IQ by up to three points, a new study has found. In the paper, ...

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DRI 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 ...