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 ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution.Researchers ...

Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers analyzed sediment cores from land and sea, linking lead levels to ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient Roman artifact that has revealed previously unknown places lost to time. The ...

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

Archaeologists have announced the discovery of a 1,7200-year-old artifact found in a city where Jesus spent most of his life.

The Greek one-euro coin can rightly claim that it has roots planted deep in history with a story longer than two millennia.

Journalism and its army of reporters can only help with facts in some measure, when industrial-scale disinformation pours out of governments and political parties everywhere.

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

Using trowels and brushes to remove ancient soil at an Early Bronze Age burial site in ... began to explore the possibility that the symbols on the cylinders could be an early Semitic alphabet dating ...

One of the few women in Ancient Greek academe, Hypatia of Alexandria was a renowned philosopher and mathematician — and she was killed because of it. People primarily remember Hypatia of Alexandria, ...