New research has found that ancient Greece may harbor the oldest known evidence of lead pollution. After analyzing sediment ...

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

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

For thousands of years, the Aegean Sea has been a crossroads of civilizations, from Bronze Age kingdoms to the cultural and military might of ancient Greece and Rome. But alongside their art, ...

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

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago. The ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy ... Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead ...

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

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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 ... such as the conquest of Greece by the Romans. The Aegean region gave rise to some of the earliest cultures of ancient Europe.