SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 19 submissions in the queue.
SoylentNews
Modern people aren't the only ones who've polluted the atmosphere. Two thousand years ago, the Romans smelted precious ores in clay furnaces, extracting silver and belching lead into the sky. Some of that lead settled on Greenland's icecap and mixed in with ever-accumulating layers of ice. Now, scientists studying annual deposits of those ice layers have found that spikes and dips in lead pollution during the Roman era mirror the timing of many historical events, including wars fought by Julius Caesar.
=> https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/rise-and-fall-roman-empire-exposed-greenland-ice-samples
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
Rise and Fall of Roman Empire Exposed in Greenland Ice Samples
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 12 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression
when you lose yours.
-- Harry S. Truman
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 15 2018, @09:01PM
I only read "Silver Pigs" but it is very, very good.
Caesar hires a private detective to figure out who is stealing their ingots of silver from the Roman silver and lead mine in Londinium, Britannia.
Let me see...
Books by Lindsay Davis [powells.com] at Powell's City Of Books.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]