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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 ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.