This article summarises the history of cinnabar, from its first uses in burials to modern oils on
canvas. After a brief introduction on mercury and contamination issues, the article gets to the …

As non-renewable cultural heritages, murals have important implications in historical
customs, religions, and philosophy as well as their aesthetic values. Recently, many murals …

The expression of specific crystal facets in different nanostructures is known to play a vital
role in determining the sensitivity toward the photodegradation of organics, which can …

The extraction and processing of cinnabar (HgS) to create red pigment have a deep history
across the Andes. From paint used to decorate the bodies of people living on the North …

The Mexico and Central American region has a history of mercury use that began at least
two millennia before European colonisation in the 16th century. Archaeologists have …

Hematite (the most abundant iron oxide polymorph) is widely detected in the water
environment and has attracted considerable attention. Natural nanocolloids (Ncs) exist …

The handheld X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (HH-XRF) is commonly used to detect the
inorganic elemental composition of pigments on-site. However, the accuracy of in-situ …

Sixteenth-century mural paintings of Nossa Senhora das Neves in Vilar de Perdizes (Galicia—
North Portugal Euroregion) were analysed. An iconographic study has allowed us to …

In this study, in order to analyze the materials and techniques used for the production of the
inscribed plaques, multi-analytical scientific approach, including optical microscopy (OM) …

In this paper, a series of modern analysis methods, including Raman spectroscopy, X-ray
diffraction, UV–vis spectrophotometry, and ultra-high-pressure liquid chromatography …