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 ...

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

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

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, archaeologists in China have unearthed the 2,200-year-old burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, a toxic red substance. Cinnabar is a ...

A team of archaeologists in Xinjiang, China, has unearthed an extraordinary piece of history—a set of human teeth intentionally painted ...

The results confirmed that the pigment was cinnabar, adhered with a protein-based binder. Cinnabar is a toxic mineral composed of mercury sulfide that can cause mercury poisoning when handled ...

Artificially prepared cinnabar is much preferred to the native; as a pigment, because of its freedom from earthy impurities, and it has long been an object of chemical manufacture, and is ...