Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chinese researchers have unearthed bronze containers with lead white residue that the ancient Chinese used for face-whitening ...

The main ingredients of early cosmetics were lead sulphide and lead carbonate, the most common naturally occurring lead compounds. Lead sulphide – or ‘galena’ – is grey and relatively soft with a ...

The city of Jericho was wealthy and well connected long before its walls came tumbling down in an attack that has been associated with a well-known passage in the Bible. A joint Italian-Palestinian ...