Greece’s mining and smelting operations ended up seriously polluting Earth’s atmosphere, as modern scientists have confirmed via buried deposits in Greenlandic glaciers of lead dust that blew ...

Smelting these metals required the Romans to ... “Peat cores don’t receive any fluvial [river] input, so it’s only ...

In antiquity, lead was released into the atmosphere as a byproduct of smelting ore for copper and silver. The toxic metal later condensed as dust and settled onto the soil. “Silver was used for ...