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 2,050 years ago, the young adult female has been dubbed the Red Princess ...

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 ...