The Museum of Design Atlanta shakes out the history of salt in its new exhibition "Salt: A Design Story," covering 17th century salt flats to today's craft salt revival.

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 ...

Four major archaeological discoveries have filled critical gaps in the understanding of ancient salt production in China, ...

The Caspian Sea occupies an unusual place on the map. It carries the name of a sea, stretches beyond the horizon in every ...