Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites from ancient Greece have now become inadvertent safe ...

We humans are a messy bunch. Where we dwell, there accumulates evidence of our nesting. We have fossilized garbage piles dating back more than 100,000 years. It's a whole thing. Putting aside its ...

New research has found that ancient Greece may harbor the oldest known evidence of lead pollution. After analyzing sediment cores from Greece’s mainland and the Aegean Sea, scientists identified ...

Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Since at least the fourth century BC, the ...

Collected during expeditions with the research vessel METEOR: sediment cores from the Aegean Sea, which as natural environmental archives provide insights into the effects of early human activity on ...