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 ...

Lead released from smelting in ancient Greece is the world’s first toxic pollution, experts say. More than 60 per cent of the ...

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

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.

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of ...

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years.

Spain's PM has proposed a ban on non-EU citizens buying second homes – but there are plenty of other countries that offer an ...

The venerable auction house is unloading one-of-a-kind gold necklaces, rings, trinkets and more from ancient Greece, Rome and ...

From 1952 to 1980, the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration (ICEM) enabled over half of all Greek migrants to ...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country ...

To allow time for all short-term rentals to comply with these new rules, they will be enforced on 1 October 2025. The ...