Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and ... In antiquity, lead was released into the atmosphere as a byproduct of smelting ore for copper and silver. The toxic metal ...

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.

Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ... lead was released into the atmosphere as a byproduct of smelting ore for copper and silver. The toxic metal later condensed as ...

Dr Joseph Maran. The Roman conquerors thus pushed the mining of gold, silver, and other metals, with ore extraction and smelting also requiring wood. The sediment cores from the Aegean Sea were ...