Ancient Rome wasn’t just the capital of a vast empire ... numbers behind Rome’s unrivalled glory. 1,000,000: Rome’s population by 1 A.D. The city was the first in history to reach this ...

In AD410, a tribe called the Visigoths stormed into the city of Rome. They killed many people and the Roman population dropped over the next century.

In AD410, a tribe called the Visigoths stormed into the city of Rome. They killed many people and the Roman population dropped over the next century.

Lead pollution likely led to widespread declines in IQ during the ancient Roman era ... rural majority of the population may have been through background air pollution arising from the mining ...