Ancient sea salt has been used for centuries as a healing, purifying, and energizing mineral—and today, it’s experiencing a wellness revival. Unlike processed table salt, ancient sea salt is rich in ...

Working from home may feel like a practice inextricably linked with the COVID-19 pandemic. But as it turns out, some ancient Maya salt makers were living and working in the same place, too. That’s the ...

More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely resembled modern Death Valley, where heat drives evaporation and leaves salt ...

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals once shaped entire landscapes. They even determined where early life on Earth ...

And then there was the (2008) earthquake.”Her hope is she can continue to acquire the salt, because it’s so different from the salt we use now.Regular salt, evaporated from our current oceans, ...

The phrase "worth your weight in salt" is one casually tossed about today -- but that wasn't always the case. Given the global importance of salt over hundreds of years, it was once a high compliment ...