These markers reflect the sweeping tax reforms initiated by Diocletian in the late third century CE, emphasizing the role of ...

But the empire’s mining and extracting of silver ... mining and smelting of silver and lead ores that underpinned the Roman economy.” To conduct their research, the scientists analyzed the ...

Scientists are exploring the role of lead pollution in the decline of the Roman Empire, proposing that chronic lead exposure from plumbing, wine, and cosmetics led to cognitive decline, infertility, ...