Industrial pollution has been having a negative impact on human health since the height of the Roman Empire, reveals new ... movement then produced maps of atmospheric lead pollution levels ...

His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

Packs of visitors inched along, brandishing maps ... At its peak, 2,000 years ago, Petra was home to as many as 30,000 people, full of temples, theaters, gardens, tombs, villas, Roman baths ...

In this MMO, you battle, build, connive, and conquer your way across a map that’s very familiar ... and settings including Feudal Japan, the Roman Empire, and Medieval Britain.

On a stony peak somewhere in this region ... Trodden by millions of pilgrims over the ages, this sacred site is marked on many maps as Mount Sinai. Muslims believe that the prophet Muhammad ...

According to a recent study, the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA), a climate crisis in the 6th century lasting 200 to 300 years, may have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire ...

Analysis of rocks from Iceland indicates that extreme climate possibly led to the wipeout of the Western Roman Empire.

(Image Credit: Dr Christopher Spencer, Queen's University, Canada) Though the collapse of the Roman Empire can be tied to a variety of factors, recent research has suggested that an ice age began on ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that sheds light on a little-known ice age that may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. "Unusual rocks," discovered in Iceland, are believed to ...

But finding the dead, that is unique for the entire Roman history.” Soldiers in the Roman Empire were typically cremated until the 3rd century. The pit where the bodies were deposited suggests a ...