Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.

Many people wore wide-brimmed hats in hot weather, to shade their faces from the sun. Suntans weren't cool in ancient Greece, so women put white lead on their face to make their skin pale.

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

Ancient Greeks knew a thing or two when it came to herbs, and oregano is one that they simply could not do without.

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers analyzed sediment cores from land and sea, linking lead levels to ...

Relaxing by the coast was one of the things people in ancient Greece and Rome most enjoyed doing in the summer. The rich built summer residences on the coast, while people of all walks of life ...

On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...