Gunpowder has been used for centuries, but did you know that the Chinese invented it by complete accident? Here's everything ...

Nicknamed the “Red Princess of the Silk Road,” this woman’s coffin has been likened to the Maya civilization’s “Red Queen”, whose remains were discovered covered in cinnabar powder ...

The team nicknamed the woman the "Red Princess of the Silk Road" after the "Red Queen," a female Maya aristocrat from seventh-century Mexico whose corpse was found covered in cinnabar powder ...

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 ...