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This Papyrus Offers Rare Insights Into Ancient Roman Criminal Cases, Particularly Tax Fraud
Recently, a papyrus was unearthed from the collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority. It offers rare insights into ...
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How Pollution in Ancient Rome Lowered IQ of Population
Lead pollution likely led to widespread declines in IQ during the ancient Roman era, a study has found ... of the population may have been through background air pollution arising from the ...
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Ancient Romans Breathed in Enough Lead to Lower Their IQs, Study Finds. Did That Toxin Contribute to the Empire’s Fall?
To estimate lead pollution levels in ancient Rome, researchers turned to ice ... a drop in IQ of between 2.5 and 3 points. Factoring in background lead exposure, their blood levels of lead may ...
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Roman Scroll Discovery Reveals Brazen 1,890-Year-Old Crime
A remarkable ancient papyrus has shed new light on Roman legal proceedings in the Near East. Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of ...
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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tokens That Roman Soldiers Used to Play Strategy Games
The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...
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Ancient Lead Poisoning May Have Contributed to the Roman Empire’s Downfall
Some have even argued that lead poisoning played a role in the downfall of the Roman empire. Most of those arguments have focused on ancient writings and archeology ... rural areas alike were affected ...