A recent study conducted by geoscientists from Heidelberg University has uncovered the earliest known evidence of ...

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

Humans have been polluting nature since ancient times, this is the conclusion of a study. Human-caused environmental ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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

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

The Aegean region gave rise to some of the earliest cultures of ancient Europe. The research team investigated when and to what extent early human activities in the region affected ecosystems both ...