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

Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth Olympia So, ancient Greeks living in Sparta considered themselves Spartan or Athenian first, and Greek second. Alexander the ...

This mom moved her family abroad for safety and security reasons. But they’re also able to afford a ‘more fulfilling’ ...

The median age of death in ancient Greece was, by some estimates, closer to 70 years, which means that half of society was living even longer than that. Hippocrates himself, the famous Greek ...

On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...

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

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

Kollyva, the boiled wheat-based sweet offered at Greek Orthodox memorial services for the souls of the dead, has roots in ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...