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

Silver fueled the rise of the Roman Empire. But the ancient process of mining and extracting silver was also making the air thick with lead, scientists found.

DRI scientists analyzed Arctic ice core records to reconstruct historical atmospheric lead pollution from Ancient Rome, ...

The mass production of silver coins in the Roman Empire had an unintended effect: spewing so much lead into the atmosphere ...

Ellen Green, a postgraduate researcher with the University of Reading, analyzed “Quarry 1” from the Nescot site and found “it ...

"A 2 to 3 points lower IQ doesn't sound like much, but when you apply that to the entire European population, it's quite a ...

An expert has revealed new details regarding the Sutton Hoo burial site, which was originally thought to contain the remains ...

For years, it was believed that royals could have been buried at the famous site - but a leading academic has another theory ...

Dr Helen Gittos, a historian at the University of Oxford, claims Sutton Hoo was not the resting place for royals, offering an ...

I n a time when CGI regularly recreates the worlds we see on our big screens, one wouldn’t be surprised to see director ...

A complex wine press and numerous artifacts were also discovered during excavations at the ancient site in Israel.