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

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 ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

The researchers used advanced atmospheric modeling to correlate lead levels in the Arctic with historical mining activities, further substantiating the link between industrial emissions and cognitive ...

Atmospheric lead pollution likely caused cognitive decline among citizens of the Roman Empire, according to research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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

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 ...

In truth, the United States itself has been on the course of intellectual, philosophical, military, and infrastructural decline for nearly the same 35 years.