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

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 ...

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 increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...

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

Lead pollution in the Aegean Sea region may have begun around 5,200 years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

The past few years have seen record-breaking tourism to Greece, a red hot travel destination that is about to get even hotter ...

They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Some treasures are more surprising—and more valuable—than others, ...

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

A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest ... went through a warm period between the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago, and the time when these whitebark ...