The ancient world was replete with a myriad of fascinating civilizations, many of which are no longer remembered.

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 ...

Research led by Jilin University and Texas A&M University has documented the first known case of cinnabar-stained teeth in ...

Cinnabar is typically found in volcanic regions ... with traces of cannabis and wine were also unearthed. Another stone chamber that dated to a century later housed the remains of 20 individuals ...

and in the stone chambers of ancient tombs. In the third-century Chinese history book called “Gishiwajinden,” it is written that cinnabar was harvested in the mountains of Japan, and that ...