This column’s title is borrowed from Edward Gibbons’ epic tome "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," written in 1776. I ...

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, ...

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[Photo: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images (Musk)] From airing his views on the fall of the Roman empire (demographic decline) to ...

Hussain Didi via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Did lead poisoning contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire? It’s a question historians have long debated, since the Romans sweetened ...

But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate change and ...

Grass-covered mounds mark the site of the Roman-era lead mine at Charterhouse on Mendip in the United Kingdom (Credit: Andrew Wilson) It’s perhaps historically appropriate that the word “ironic” ...

The study also could add fuel to a fraught and long-standing debate about whether mass lead poisoning could have contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. “Ancient texts and archaeological ...