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 ...

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

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. Researchers analyzed sediment cores from land and sea, linking lead levels to ...

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

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...

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

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, ...

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Humans have polluted the sea with lead for far longer than we realised, study shows - Scientists say signs of heavy metal pollution date all the way back to Ancient Greece ...