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 ...

In the 1200s, a Chinese official described Alexandria and its lighthouse in remarkable detail given the vast distance.

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 ...

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...