The researchers found that levels of lead contamination remained fairly low and localised in ancient Greece, considered the cradle of European civilisation, throughout the Bronze Age, the Classical ...

Lead contamination lead remained fairly low and localized in ancient Greece throughout the Bronze Age, the Classical period ...

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

The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...

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

Estimating the population of Ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different time periods.

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 ...

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

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed ... The statue that dates back to the Hellenistic period, which covers the time between the death of Alexander ...

The sculpture dates back to the Hellenistic period ... Greece. Police said an archaeologist with the Ephorate of Antiquities -- an archaeological unit in Greece that manages and protects ancient ...

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