Smithsonian Magazine12 天
Roman Empire
The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire Sonja ... the late fourth century C.E. Sonja ...
Live Science29 天
Roman Empire grew after catastrophic volcanic eruption, study finds
The use of large datasets from vast territories previously ruled by the Roman Empire presents a different scenario. Our findings reveal that there was no decline in the 6th century, but rather a ...
ScienceAlert26 天
Roman Empire's Air Pollution May Have Lowered The IQ of Europe
The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea, and even sky. During the golden age of Roman imperialism, air pollution grew so inescapable that researchers now suspect it caused ...
Greek Reporter26 天
How the Roman Empire Lowered IQ Levels in Europe
the scientists turned to atmospheric models to map how the lead would have spread across Europe. They then drew on modern studies to calculate how much of the neurotoxic metal would have built up in ...
The Washington Post26 天
Roman Empire’s lead pollution was high enough to lower IQs, study says
Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire as its coin-based currency accelerated ... the widespread use of leaded gasoline in the 20th century. During the peak era of leaded gasoline in the ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN12 天
Researchers Have Found an Inca Tunnel Beneath the Peruvian City of Cusco
It’s long been rumored that a network of old, underground tunnels lies beneath Cusco, Peru, the capital of the ancient Incan ...
La Brújula Verde5 天
A Spectacular Miniature Roman Gold Lock from the 3rd Century AD, Found in Germany
Credit: Eugen Müsch / Stefan Brentführer / Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) The discovery of a miniature Roman lock, smaller than a one-euro coin, was presented in Münster by the Regional ...
ancient-origins13 天
3rd Century Roman Boundary Stone with Inscription Found in Northern Israel
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Greek Reporter4 天
Miniature Roman Gold Lock from 3rd Century Discovered in Germany
Credit: LWL /S. Brentführer Archaeologists have uncovered a miniature Roman gold lock, measuring just 1.2 by 1.1 centimeters—smaller than a U.S. quarter coin—in a field in Petershagen-Frille in ...
The Daily Telegraph25 天
How the Roman Empire solved its public sector pension problem – 2,000 years before Britain
Stretching from the windswept Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland down to North Africa, and from Portugal to the Middle East, the Roman Empire was vast. And to keep its new borders intact ...
Live Science7 天
Over 400 gold and silver Roman-era coins unearthed in the Netherlands depict rulers from ...
Of the more than 400 coins, 116 were gold. These gold coins included 72 Roman aurei dating from 19 B.C. to A.D. 47, as well as 44 gold alloy coins, called staters, that were minted in Britain. The ...
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Roman Empire’s use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds
Apart from sanitation, medicines, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what did the Romans ever do for us? asks an exasperated Reg in Monty ...