Marriage in Ancient Greece was an important union and the wedding ceremony was a three-day celebration for family and friends.

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. Geoscientists conducted ...

Lead released from smelting in ancient Greece is the world’s first toxic pollution, experts say. View on euronews ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

The oldest signs of lead pollution are found in the Aegean Sea region of Greece, dating back to ancient times, a new study reveals.

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.

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 ...

An international research team has analyzed collagen from human remains found in Greece's Franchthi Cave, uncovering dietary ...

An exhibition featuring ancient Greek artifacts opened Monday at the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan ...

The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Yet, in a land whose ancient Greek forebears coined the notion of hubris as a potent ingredient of tragedy, both developments contributed to a crippling debt crisis that raised questions about ...