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The article shows that many emperors from ~0-200AD had a lead rich diet, and I'm guessing the paper stopped when it did because sources suffered during the Cris
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
The article shows that many emperors from ~0-200AD had a lead rich diet, and I'm guessing the paper stopped when it did because sources suffered during the Crisis of the Third Century.
If the early emperors ate a lot of lead, it's reasonable to expect many of the later ones continued doing so, which could have played a role in the downfall.
- goto11 5y agoCouldn't you just as well conclude that lead-eating emperors lead an empire to expand and prosper for centuries?
- boomboomsubban 5y agoIt'd kinds depend on which of the 19 loved lead containing food, there was only about 70 years of conquest over that period. But I think the overall goal of that unrelated claim was just to show lead poisoning likely did happen, with other things claiming it became more wide spread.