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Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals of the ancient world. By the age of 32 he had conquered a massive ...

Lead pollution in the Aegean Sea region may have begun around 5,200 years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

On January 15, VTsIOM published its assessment of Russians' knowledge of history — the results turned out to be contradictory ...

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the ...

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

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers analyzed sediment cores from land and sea, linking lead levels to ...

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 ...

Lead pollution in the Aegean Sea region may have begun around 5,200 years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & Environment ...

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