Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity. Geoscientists conducted ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.

Nostalgia has become a defining trait for Millennials and Gen Z-ers. However, this concept has roots beyond the present to ancient Greece.

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an ...

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

As demand grows for holidays with a cultural focus that appeal to children, Abigail Healy rounds up a bumper crop of tours worthy of a teacher’s gold star ...

An ancient railway has reappeared on a Cornish beach for the first time in years. Recent weather washed away the sand that covered the tracks on Summerleaze beach in Bude last week. Neil Williams ...

Simitis imposed financial measures to prepare for Greece’s entry into the eurozone ... Yet, in a land whose ancient Greek forebears coined the notion of hubris as a potent ingredient of tragedy ...

Further back in evolution, two babies at once was the norm. Our ancient primate ancestors gave birth to twins. Modern humans overwhelmingly birth just a single child — a rather large child with ...

Compared to 2024’s wave of protests against overtourism across Europe, in Greece – famed for its ... will include everything from ancient amphoras and tableware, to marble statues and bronze ...