Unique marks on 2,000-year-old skeleton of ‘Red Princess’ shed light on ancient Chinese civilisation - Finding points to ...

Testing confirmed the substance as cinnabar, a mercury sulfide mineral historically used in burial practices, shamanism, and early medicine. Findings suggest long-distance trade connections and ...

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

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 ...

An archaeological discovery in the Turpan Basin of northwest China has revealed the remains of a woman more than 2,000 years ...

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 ...

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 ...

The research, published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, reveals the red stains on the woman’s teeth were caused by the mercury-based mineral cinnabar. Cinnabar ...