Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

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

Cinnabar was used as a pigment in Maya art, and its red color may have been regarded as sacred. Evidence of its use in funeral rites has been found at other Maya sites, and the color may have ...

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 ...