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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 21 hours ago

Recent research showed that they had lead-polluted air on top of things like lead-sweetened wine. Apparently the lead air pollution was also a byproduct of silver mining (which was mostly for coinage). e.g. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419630121