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  • How On Earth Did Ancient Civilisations Get MERCURY?

    02/01/2024 6:06:28 AM PST · by SunkenCiv · 22 replies
    YouTube ^ | Premiered January 14, 2024 | Chemistorian
    How On Earth Did Ancient Civilisations Get MERCURY? | 13:03Chemistorian | 7.07K subscribers | 255,286 views | Premiered January 14, 2024
  • Ancient Maya Cities Appear to Have Been Riddled With Mercury Pollution

    09/26/2022 8:41:03 PM PDT · by logi_cal869 · 16 replies
    MSN ^ | 9/26/2022 | Mike McRae
    Toxic levels of a pollutant commonly associated with the wastes of modern industry have been uncovered amid the most unlikely of archaeological sites. Long before conquistadors from far-off lands introduced the decay of war and disease, Maya cultures were dusting the soils of their urban centers with the heavy metal mercury. - snip - "Discovering mercury buried deep in soils and sediments in ancient Maya cities is difficult to explain, until we begin to consider the archaeology of the region which tells us that the Maya were using mercury for centuries." - snip - Perhaps the most widely used form...
  • Ukraine Says It Seized 'Red Mercury' (does it exist afterall?)

    05/17/2004 10:17:42 AM PDT · by QQQQQ · 29 replies · 693+ views
    Yahoo News/AP ^ | May 17, 2004 | ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC
    KIEV, Ukraine - Ukrainian security officers have arrested two Middle Eastern men whom they said possessed a substance that has been touted by sellers as an ingredient in nuclear weapons and dismissed by others as a hoax. Security agents in the southern city of Odessa seized 24 pounds of a substance they said was radioactive and identified as "red mercury," a State Security Service spokesman said Monday on condition of anonymity. He said they arrested two men from a Middle Eastern country, "Foreign citizens were looking for an opportunity to purchase a quantity of radioactive material in Ukraine and to...