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.

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 ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

Black individuals in Norway, and challenges related to immigration, race, and potential racial bias within the Norwegian ...

A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city ...

New research revealed surprising insights into the prehistoric Greek diet, challenging assumptions about their reliance on ...

As technology accelerates progress, a paradox emerges: digital nomadism is unraveling humanity back to its hunter-gatherer ...

Sculpture was one of the most important art forms in ancient Greece. The materials, techniques, and themes were developed ...