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

The guided missiles of their day, triremes were the key to Athens' greatness in the 5th century BC. According to the Ancient Greek historian, Thucydides, it was the Corinthians who first developed ...

However, throughout the 5th century BC playwrights continued ... His play 'The Persians', first performed in 472 BC, is the oldest surviving of all Greek plays. His pupil, Sophocles went on ...