Using modern evidence of lead pollution and its health effects ... which have also noted a spike in atmospheric lead at the peak of the Roman Empire, and archaeological finds, which have revealed ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. The emperor Hadrian was well known for building monuments across the Roman Empire, a territory that ...

One of the farthest corners of the Roman Empire, Judaea was a land of ancient ... As he was growing up, Judaea was collapsing into chaos. Its population had split into hostile groups.