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

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy ... Around that time, in 146 B.C., the Roman army conquered the ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy ... transforming the region’s society and economy. As Roman trade, colonies, and shipping expanded across the Mediterranean and Black ...

The first tangible signs of progress came the following year, when Greece’s GDP growth turned positive. This trajectory has continued since and the EC estimates its economy grew by 2.2% in 2019.

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 increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...