Lead contamination lead remained fairly low and localized in ancient Greece throughout the Bronze Age, the Classical period ...

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 ...

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...

The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

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 ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

An ancient statue dating to the Hellenistic era was found in a black bag next to garbage bins in Greece's northern city of ...

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed ... The statue that dates back to the Hellenistic period, which covers the time between the death of Alexander ...

Remains of an ancient Greek gymnasium ... is known by historians as the Archaic period of Greek history. During this time many of the cities in Greece were ruled by a king-like figure.

The shining white marble-based structures were designed to glisten in the sun and potentially symbolize ancient creation ...

Yet, in a land whose ancient Greek forebears coined the notion ... a son of Andreas Papandreou who, at the time, was Greece’s foreign minister. “Simitis has not made Greece perfect but he ...