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 ...

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.

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

Historically, some have taken that as a sign for peace as Mars has been the “planet of war and conflict in many cultures, ...

BCE, two titans of the Hellenistic world clashed in one of the ancient world’s largest battles to decide the fate of ...

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

Like almost every country, especially those spanning vast territories, China went through a unification process that ...

Almost every royal fiat had to be whetted by the Council of Ministers before it was executed. The top ministerial echelons ...

As Eisenhower once said of how conflicts end, 'sometimes it just gets down to the dirty job of killing until one side or the ...

The nonprofit World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced its 2025 World Monuments Watch list. Read on for the full list. Teaser ...