The find was made in the Shengjindian cemetery, a key region along the ancient Silk Road, where archaeologists began ...

The first ever case of an ancient skeleton with cinnabar-stained teeth has been reported in China. Dated to between 2,200 and ...

Researchers found the remains of a woman over 2,000 years old in northwest China with red-dyed teeth thanks to the use of ...

The flask is then placed on a bed of hot sand (kept hot by a slow drawing furnace), and is left to remain thus red-hot for some hours, at the end of which time the cinnabar is found sublimed in ...