The devastating health effects of lead exposure are well-documented, even at low levels. Modern studies highlight how lead ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the ...

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

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

A further spike in levels of human-caused lead pollution was observed about 2,150 years ago. This period saw the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Aegean region, which hosted some of the ...

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

FILE - A woman poses for a photo in front Caryatid statues that prop up the porch of the 5th century B.C. Erechtheion temple, as at the background is seen smoke from a fire , during a hot, windy ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

The Oldest Evidence for Lead Pollution Comes From Ancient Greece WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out ...

(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores ...