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. That's ...
The picture shows the archaeological wood samples examined, seen from left 1 to 3, the first modern samples of spruce, maple, and chestnut and 4 to 6 the archaeological samples the in same order.
Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...