According to a new study published Monday in the journal PNAS, the Roman Empire's mining of silver put so much lead in the air that it made everyone dumber. Crushing ore deposits to extract the ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome Vol. 67, 2022 Weight Inscriptions on Roman Silver Plat... Weight Inscriptions on Roman Silver Plate and the ...

Credit: Andrew Williams/Norfolk County Council Metal detectorists in the east of England have discovered a cache of Roman silver coins that depict several emperors and even some of their wives.

A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins spanning two centuries has been discovered in a field by a detectorist. The denarii date from the late Roman Republic to the reign of Marcus Aurelius and his wife ...