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

Mes Aynak’s landscape is completely deforested today, and it’s possible that ancient copper smelting played a role in the area’s denuding—which in turn may have ended copper production.

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

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest ... In antiquity, lead was released into the atmosphere as a byproduct of smelting ore for copper and silver. The toxic metal later condensed ...

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of ...