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 ...

New research has found that ancient Greece may harbor the oldest known evidence of lead pollution. After analyzing sediment ...

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

TIMES is the title of the international team's project, which is an acronym for "Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences." ...

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

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

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the environment dating to around 5,200 years ago.

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.

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

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

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. A research team led ...