A recent study conducted by geoscientists from Heidelberg University has uncovered the earliest known evidence of environmental lead contamination in the Aegean region. By analyzing sediment cores from the seabed and coastal areas surrounding the Aegean Sea, researchers have determined that human activities began polluting the environment with lead approximately 5,200 years ago—well before previously […]
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Mollusks Found in Building Materials Reveal Bronze Age Cretans Used Seagrasses to Make Their Bricks Fire-Resistant
A recent study led by Rena Veropoulidou (Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki) and Maud Devolder (Ghent University) has uncovered an innovative technique for unraveling the mysteries of Bronze Age architecture in the Aegean region. Researchers have utilized remains of marine mollusks as indirect indicators to identify traces of disintegrated mud bricks used in constructions […]
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Evidence of Ancient Volcanic Eruption Six Times Larger than the One that Caused the Fall of the Minoan Civilization Found on Santorini
An international expedition led by Dr. Steffen Kutterolf of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has found evidence of one of the largest eruptions ever recorded in southern Aegean Arc of Greece. The expedition was conducted aboard the JOIDES Resolution research vessel as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). The Greek island […]
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The fantastic cargo of the Uluburun, a Bronze Age ship of uncertain origin
In 1982 an amateur diver searching for sponges off the coast of the city of Kaç in Turkey came across something spectacular. The wreck of a ship sunk with all its cargo at the end of the Bronze Age, in the 14th century BC. The wreck and the ship were named Uluburun, after the strip […]
