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Ancient Dacians: Linking the Past to Present Day Romania
The ancient Dacians, ancestors of modern-day Romanians, were a remarkable civilization that flourished in the territory of ...
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Did Climate Change Really Bring Down the Eastern Roman Empire?
Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to ...
How the Roman Empire solved its public sector pension problem – 2,000 years before Britain
It’s an idea that has lasted until the modern day. The UK has its own generous pensions for state workers and some 17.2m ...
Ancient lead pollution may have lowered IQs across the Roman Empire
The new research adds context to a long-standing debate about the role lead pollution and poisoning may have played in the ...
La Brújula Verde2d
The Legacy of the Roman Empire in Germany: A Surprising Study Reveals How It Influences the Current Well-Being of Regions
A recent study published in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology has shown that Roman rule, which occurred ...
The Conversation23d
What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire – and what can we learn from it?
Between 541 and 544, there was also the first and most severe documented occurrence of the Justinianic plague in the eastern Roman Empire ... covering modern-day Israel, Tunisia, Jordan, Cyprus ...
Discover Magazine9d
Ancient Lead Poisoning May Have Contributed to the Roman Empire’s Downfall
Learn how researchers examined lead levels in ice cores dating back to the Roman Empire, and found concentrations high enough ...
Phys.org24d
What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire, and what can we learn from it?
Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman Empire to climate ... covering modern-day Israel, Tunisia, Jordan, Cyprus, Turkey ...