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Using Arctic ice core samples, researchers estimate silver mining and smelting released enough lead during the Pax Romana to ...

A silver amulet found next to a skeleton in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

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Hanno is defined by the film’s most formidable character, Macrinus, played by the Mephistophelean Denzel Washington, as a ...

The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...

The Colosseum master of ceremonies (Matt Lucas ... the statement is not that of the film’s producers but of late-empire Rome, in whose hubristic imagination the 480 BCE Greek victory over ...