Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes ...

The devastating health effects of lead exposure are well-documented, even at low levels. Modern studies highlight how lead ...

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 ...

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 Aegean ...

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 ... to some of the ...

The researchers found that levels of lead contamination remained fairly low and localized in ancient Greece, considered the cradle of European civilization, throughout the Bronze Age, the ...

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 Aegean Sea ...

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

FILE - A woman poses for a photo in front Caryatid statues that prop up the porch of the 5th century B.C. Erechtheion temple, as at the background is seen smoke from a fire , during a hot, windy ...