Many people wore wide-brimmed hats in hot weather, to shade their faces from the sun. Suntans weren't cool in ancient Greece, so women put white lead on their face to make their skin pale.

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

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

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

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

Ancient Greeks knew a thing or two when it came to herbs, and oregano is one that they simply could not do without.

Authorities in Greece say they have arrested a suspect accused of setting up online auctions to sell ancient Greek artifacts across multiple countries, including the United States, Britain, Canada, ...

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

Relaxing by the coast was one of the things people in ancient Greece and Rome most enjoyed doing in the summer. The rich built summer residences on the coast, while people of all walks of life ...

Today the perilous state of the environment is often in the news. Many stories describe how Earth is being damaged by human ...

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 ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized ...