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.

The Earliest Hints of Lead Pollution Dates 5,200 Years Back, Ancient Agrarian Sediment Core Reveal Traces Lead poisoning has ...

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

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

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

An ancient Greek defensive wall from at least 2,000 years ago was uncovered near the Adriatic coast of Croatia it was ...

The Minoans made wine here in the 20th century B.C.,” said Ergin Ince, the guide that one of my hotels, Six Senses Kaplankaya, had secured for me for a tour of the ancient cities of Priene ...

Lead contamination in ancient Greece points to societal change Geoscientists find the oldest evidence of human-caused contamination with the heavy metal lead in the Aegean region Date: January 30 ...