Researchers from Mainz, Oxford, and Innsbruck have used carbonate fragments to unravel the complex history of the Arles ...

Environmental disasters involving huge oil tankers poisoned wastewater and thousands of tons of lead. The lead got into the ...

Ancient Rome Was So Polluted With Lead That IQs Dropped Airborne particles from minting coins damaged health, study says, and might have contributed to the Roman Empire’s downfall ...

A further spike in levels of human-caused lead pollution was observed about 2,150 years ago. This period saw the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Aegean region, which hosted some of the ...

Later the Roman Empire used lead for tableware and for construction, including pipes. Previous research – including an analysis of ice cores from Greenland – had detected high levels of lead ...

This required smelting, which released lead, said Koutsodendris. Later, the Roman Empire used lead for tableware and for construction, including pipes.

This is approximately 1,200 years earlier than the previous earliest suspected lead pollution, recorded in cores from peatlands in the Balkan Peninsula. The authors also suggest that a change in the ...

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.

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the ...

The oldest evidence for lead pollution comes from ancient Greece by: CHRISTINA LARSON, Associated Press Posted: Jan 30, 2025 / 11:01 AM EST Updated: Jan 30, 2025 / 11:01 AM EST ...