The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

New research has uncovered the earliest traces of lead contamination caused by human activities, linking the development of ...

A skeleton of a man who was a victim of the Santorini volcano -- and his dog -- were found this week by archaeologists in Turkey.

This island archipelago north of Athens offers the best attributes of the Aegean without the crowds or commoditized Hellenism ...

The popular Greek holiday island of Santorini is taking emergency measures in response to intense seismic activity. More than ...

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.

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

Many of the oldest inhabited cities in Greece are still standing against all odds. They have survived to this day to tell the ...

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

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 ...

Landforms reveal ice sheet's movement beneath North Sea Ancient glacial features help understand past climate shifts Discovery challenges theories of multiple ice sheets during Ice Age ...