Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

Learn more about the earliest evidence of human-caused contamination from lead, found in the ancient Aegean.

For thousands of years, the Aegean Sea has been a crossroads of civilizations, from Bronze Age kingdoms to the cultural and military might of ancient Greece and Rome. But alongside their art, ...

Why did the Minoans have a prosperous economy? A fertile soil and abundant supplies helped to make the Minoans a prosperous civilization. These cities spread across the Aegean and beyond, using crete ...

In the eastern Aegean, Minoan pottery has been found in ... Despite the importance of Crete to ancient Greek civilization, archaeological study of its culture is relatively recent.

A recent study conducted by geoscientists from Heidelberg University has uncovered the earliest known evidence of ...