Ancient Maya mercury use may have come at a severe environmental cost

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Nov 5, 2026, 2:20 pm126 ptsTrending
Ancient Maya communities made extensive use of liquid mercury and a red, mercury-containing pigment called cinnabar to decorate buildings, pottery and burial sites. Unsurprisingly, as previous research has shown, this led to mercury contamination of soils and reservoirs at some Maya sites. And that pollution…

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