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 ...

Few places in the world capture the imagination quite like Santorini. This stunning Greek island, set in the heart of ...

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

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

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, ...

Credit: Communications Earth & Environment. 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 ...

The recent earthquake swarm near Santorini has brought the topic of volcanoes in Greece back into the spotlight.

The Aegean fostered some of Europe’s earliest civilizations, fueling cultures like the Minoans, the Myceneans, and the ancient Greeks. Setting out to study how these cultures treated their Aegean ...