Research led by Jilin University and Texas A&M University has documented the first known case of cinnabar-stained teeth in antiquity. Analysis of a burial from approximately 2,200 years ago in the ...

Archaeologists have identified what caused unusual red dye marks on the remains of a young woman who lived 2,200 years ago in ...

Cinnabar is a bright-red mineral that's made of mercury and sulfur. Although it's been used since at least the ninth millennium B.C. in religious ceremonies, art, body paint and writing ...

Different cultures follow different practices, especially when death arrives. Some believe in mummification, while some ...

Ron Mosley, who has owned Cinnabar since 2019, came to the winery in 1983 to plant the first chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon grapes in the Saratoga hillsides near Mountain Winery. Cinnabar opened a ...

An archaeological discovery in the Turpan Basin of northwest China has revealed the remains of a woman more than 2,000 years old, distinguished by her red-dyed teeth—a unique practice not ...

Scientists have confirmed that the pigment used is cinnabar, a valuable mineral historically linked to religious rituals, art ...

The discoveries confirm the presence of the Tartessians in the area and provide evidence of their pursuit of new mineral resources, such as silver, lead, cinnabar, mercury, and copper, extracted ...