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 ...

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The oldest signs of lead pollution are found in the Aegean Sea region of Greece, dating back to ancient times, a new study reveals.

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

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But Dr Koutsodendris said the researchers detected a big jump in atmospheric lead pollution levels in the region — from both the sea and the bog — around the fall of Greece in 146 BC as the Roman ...

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.