Gypsum may be an unfamiliar name to many but we are surrounded by it every day. It is a mineral used to make types of plaster ...

A Roman-era cemetery, found ahead of a construction project in England, holds an unusual burial at its center.

Gypsum, a natural mineral made largely of calcium sulfate dihydrate, has a variety of uses dating back centuries, from lining walls to serve as a fire retardant for Mesopotamians to a plaster ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman -era cemetery in England with the unique burial of a “high-status individual” encased in liquid gypsum at its centre. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...

Because gypsum dissolves easily in water, rain would normally wash it away and carry it to the sea. In this part of the Chihuahuan Desert, however, the land forms a basin, trapping the mineral; water ...