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Lion Cavern in Eswatini is World’s Oldest Ochre Mine, Archaeologists Say

Archaeologists say they have discovered the oldest known evidence for intensive ochre mining worldwide, at least 48,000 years ago, in Lion Cavern at Ngwenya in Eswatini, a landlocked country in southern Africa.

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