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.

1903204485

Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg

Manitoba

Canada

The oldest evidence for lead pollution comes from ancient Greece

Archaeologists have traced the earliest case of lead pollution by humans to the Aegean Sea region around 5,200 years ago.

Ad Fontes Media

All Sides

Media Bias/Fact Check

The Independent

Evgeny Lebedev

London

Greater London

England

United Kingdom

Archaeologists trace first case of lead pollution by humans to 5,200 years ago

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.

Associated Press News

Independent Media

United States

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece

abc News

The Walt Disney Company

Soil and water pollution with lead tripled in the region of present-day Greece and Turkey starting in 150 BC, representing one of the oldest cases of the release of toxic waste on a large scale by human activity, a new study reveals.
Read more (01/30/2025)

A polui��o do solo e da �gua com chumbo triplicou na regi�o das atuais Gr�cia e Turquia a partir do ano 150 a.C., representando um dos mais antigos casos de libera��o de dejetos t�xicos em larga escala pela a��o humana, revela um novo estudo.
Leia mais (01/30/2025

Avanço do Império Romano intensificou poluição - 30/01/2025 - Ciência

Grupo Folha

Brazil

Advance of the Roman Empire intensified pollution - 30/01/2025

Evidence collected from the bottom of the Aegean Sea shows that lead pollution in the Aegean Sea started much earlier than previously thought, with the Greeks and Romans being the main culprits for this.

Probe culese de pe fundul Mării Egee demonstrează că poluarea cu plumb în zona Mării Egee a început mult mai devreme decât se credea, iar principalii vinovaţi pentru acest lucru sunt grecii şi romanii.

Romanii ar fi poluat cu plumb, alături de greci, apele Mării Egee. Concluzie surprinzătoare a unui studiu recent

Adevarul

Romania

The Romans allegedly polluted with lead, along with the Greeks, the waters of the Aegean Sea. Surprising conclusion of a recent study

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 Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the environment dating to around 5,200 years ago. That’s 1,200 years older than the previous earliest recorded lead pollution, which was found in a peatbog in Serbia. In an…

My Mother Lode

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating back more than 5,000 years ago

The Globe & Mail

The Woodbridge Company

The oldest evidence for lead pollution comes from ancient Greece, researchers say

Phys.org

Lead contamination in ancient Greece points to societal change

Humans were probably polluting the environment with lead much earlier than previously thought. Researchers led by the University of Heidelberg have found evidence in a Greek peat bog that suggests the heavy metal, which is toxic to humans, was already polluting the air in the area around 5,200 years ago. That is 1,200 years earlier than previously known.

Mensen vervuilden het milieu waarschijnlijk al veel eerder met lood dan tot dusver werd gedacht. Onderzoekers onder leiding van de Universiteit van Heidelberg hebben in een Grieks veenmoeras bewijs gevonden dat erop duidt dat ongeveer 5200 jaar geleden de lucht in het gebied al werd vervuild met het zware metaal, dat giftig is voor mensen. Dat is 1200 jaar eerder dan tot nog toe bekend was.

Ancient Greece Revealed as Earliest Source of Human-Caused Lead Pollution

Coverage Details

Bias Distribution

Ownership

Similar News Topics

Similar News Topics