The intricately crafted coffin dates back more than 1,500 years. Researchers say it weighs around 1,650 pounds, "comparable to an adult male polar bear" Sonja Anderson Using Arctic ice core ...

The Temple of Saturn from ancient Rome. The rise and fall of the Roman Empire shifted the population in the Balkans. Credit: Marcok / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 A recent study, published in the ...

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 ...

Analyses of Arctic ice layers point to concentrations of atmospheric lead at the Roman Empire’s height that were about threefold what they are today in the US. The effect on the intelligence of ...

Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire (also ... were used to map the general changes in the ...

Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate ... were used to map the general changes in the size and number ...

People living during the golden age of the Roman Empire experienced an average 2.5 to 3 point reduction in IQ due to atmospheric lead, according to a study published January 6 in the journal ...

What is today Poland was a long journey from the boundaries of the ancient Roman Empire, but even then ... dating from the Thirty Years War (1618–1648). The Thirty Years War was one of the most ...

The finding may upend historians' understanding of how Christianity was practiced in the early Roman Empire. Measuring just ... of Saint Titus. Holy, holy, holy! In the name of Jesus Christ ...

Mining and smelting minerals like iron represented technological highs at the Roman Empire’s peak. But those activities also produced enough lead pollution to impair its citizens’ IQs, according to a ...

miles beyond the ancient frontiers of the Roman Empire. The discovery was made by Stefan Klein, who immediately reported his findings to government archaeologists in Koblenz. A subsequent ...

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly one of the ... one of them will betray him and hand him over to the Roman soldiers. Around the world, Bishops and priests come ...