A new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment revealed that lead pollution in the Aegean Sea dates ...

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

Lead pollution started peaking when the Romans took over the Aegean coastline.

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

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

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The findings, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, ...

The oldest signs of lead pollution are found in the Aegean Sea region of Greece, dating back to ancient times, a new study ...

Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

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 ...

The findings give new insight into the dangers of urban wildfires that burn plastics and other chemicals in homes and ...

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