People mixed cinnabar with egg yolk or oil to make paint. The pigment was applied to graves and corpses. Throughout the 20th century, researchers have conducted excavations at Valencina to reveal ...

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 ...

The most common ore of mercury is called cinnabar. Its scientific name is mercury sulfide (HgS). In its pure, manmade form it's known as vermilion, which is a red pigment used in artist's paint.