Some Scientists Say Lead Poisoning Led To The Fall Of The Roman Empire

There is no polity more storied in the west than the Roman Empire, but could its fall have really been caused by its choice of plumbing material?
Greek Reporter

The Ancient Road That Connected Rome With Byzantium

The Via Egnatia was an ancient Roman road that ran from the Adriatic Sea to Byzantium, connecting northern ancient Greek ...
America Magazine

‘Gladiator II’ reminds us what we already knew: America can’t stop thinking about the Roman Empire

A gaggle of Romans in Mel Brooks’s 1981 classic, “History of the World, Part 1” (Wikimedia Commons) When I lived in Philadelphia in my early 20s, my walk to work regularly took me past a statue of ...
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Some scientists say lead poisoning secretly helped topple the Roman Empire

The idea that a silent, toxic metal helped unravel one of history’s greatest empires sounds like historical noir, but it is ...
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The story of civilization

1. Our Oriental heritage, being a history of civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the death of Alexander, and in India, China and Japan from the beginning to our own day, with an introduction on ...