An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge ...

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

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

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers analyzed sediment cores from land and sea, linking lead levels to ...

Credit: Ministry of Culture Greece’s Ministry of Culture is proceeding with the restoration and maintenance of the acropolis of Pelinna, an ancient Greek city-state of Thessaly. Pelinna, located east ...

“It could be either ancient, silica-rich material that has been there since the formation of the mantle about 4 billion years ago and has survived despite the convective movements in the mantle ...

3500 BC to 1100 BC. The Griffin Warrior Tomb was discovered near the ancient Palace of Nestor within the Bronze Age city of Pylos in southwest Greece. The excavation began in a spot where three stones ...

Compared to 2024’s wave of protests against overtourism across Europe, in Greece – famed for its ... will include everything from ancient amphoras and tableware, to marble statues and bronze ...

Relaxing by the coast was one of the things people in ancient Greece and Rome most enjoyed doing in the summer. The rich built summer residences on the coast, while people of all walks of life ...