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 ...

Widen the aperture a bit, and we can envision Earth entering a fire age comparable to the ice ages of the Pleistocene, ...

The artifact was found in Neoi Epivates, a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece. Upon its discovery, the man took the statue to his ...

After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...

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The complex also included a large warehouse and winepress Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient complex of ruined Byzantine-era buildings in Israel.

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“It adds a whole new dimension to the natural history of the island.” He tells CBC News that the meteorite came from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it would have been ...

An examination of ancient DNA recovered from 57 graves in Dorset in southwest England shows that two-thirds of the individuals were descended from a single maternal lineage. The cemetery was used ...

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