Oldest Evidence for Lead Pollution Comes From Ancient Greece

The oldest evidence for lead pollution comes from ancient Greece
Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the environment dating to around 5,
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