Did you know Greenland’s ice holds a timeline of European civilization? Scientists just used ice cores to track 12,000 years of lead pollution—basically, ancient economic booms and busts! Every spike in lead matches big moments: Phoenician expansion, Roman conquests, even the fall of Rome after the Antonine Plague. Turns out, the rise and fall of empires is literally frozen in time. Wild how history leaves traces in the most unexpected places! #Science #HistoryNerd #ScienceIsCool