The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.

Lead pollution likely led to widespread declines in IQ during the ancient Roman era, a study has found. The negative health effects of lead exposure in modernity have been widely recognized.

Highway workers found an ancient Roman cemetery, including a grave filled with a curious substance, during a recent highway construction project in England. The announcement was made last week by ...

The coins include depictions of nine Roman emperors who ruled between 364 ... because it is extremely rare to be able to study in its entirety an ancient monetary deposit in its archaeological ...

The emperors depicted on the coins ruled between 364 and 408 C.E. National Institute for Archaeological Research The dig revealed a cache of 141 ancient Roman coins, which is valued at €308,600 ...

Languages: English, Spanish A "beautifully carved" ancient Roman stone coffin weighing more than 1,600 pounds has been unearthed during road upgrade works in the United Kingdom. The coffin was ...

in an ancient Roman era quarry shaft. In her paper published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Ellen Green describes where the bone was found, its condition, and possible reasons for it being ...

During a British highway project, a team of archaeologists uncovered a Roman-era central burial with ... use in the construction of pyramids by the ancient Egyptians. And, apparently, for the ...

Workers discovered an Ancient Roman tomb that was unearthed during roadworks in Cambridgeshire. The artefact is predicted to have remained untouched for over 1,500 years. Following the initial ...

To estimate lead pollution levels in ancient Rome, researchers turned to ice core samples taken from Greenland and Russia. For decades, scientists have been using large drills to penetrate Arctic ...

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