This Ancient ‘Lion Cavern’ Mine Is the Origin of the Stone Age's Favorite Color. Story by Tim Newcomb • 1mo. Eswatini in southern Africa is home to the world’s oldest ochre mine.

Granite colors range the spectrum from white to black to pink, but what makes a single rock type so variable? Here we will discover what makes each granite a different color, what that tells us ...

For many, the sculptures' mysterious carvings of animals and symbols are impressive as they are. But some scholars suggest their ancient creators may also have painted the stones, bringing out in ...

This wasn’t a one-time usage situation, either—the for thousands of years, spanning the final Middle Stone Age and the Late Stone Age, the cavern was mined for a clay-based pigmentation ...