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Why so many prehistoric monuments were painted red

Megaliths, or huge stones, were used for thousands of years to build monuments, and they were far more colourful than you might think – the most common pigments used to decorate them came from reddish cinnabar and ochre

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Life

Artist’s tulip photos capture transience of life

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RGAJ63 Caveman painting in a cave

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How archaeologists can decide if prehistoric artefacts count as art

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The Makapansgat pebble is seen on display as part of the exhibition "South Africa: the Art of a Nation", at the British Museum in London, Britain November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Heavens FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY - LR1ECBP1AXUYC

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The archaeological finds that show art is far older than our species

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MosaiQ's generated images

Technology

Quantum AI image generator is no match for ones on ordinary computers

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Painting at the top of Mont Blanc

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Engineer Jason Lyon poses as he views Loo Garden, a temporary subterranean garden designed to represent a future healthier River Thames, in a section of the Thames Tideway Tunnel - commonly known as the 'Super Sewer' - a 25 kilometre tunnel being built across London under and along the River Thames to deal with combined sewer overflows currently polluting the river, in London, Britain, June 29, 2023. REUTERS/Toby Melville - RC22T1ANLLXT

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See the garden blooming in a ‘super sewer’ deep below London

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Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Scans of Girl with a Pearl Earring reveal painting’s hidden secrets

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Artistic artefacts are rewriting the timeline of ancient South America

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Sir Maurice Youge, Internationally renowned marine zoologist (1899-1986). His hybrid form is based on the local murex shell

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These beautiful sculptures are watching over the Great Barrier Reef

Ocean Sentinels is a series of mostly underwater sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor, who hopes the statues will be colonised by corals and other threatened marine life

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Technology

Underwater writing technique lets you draw patterns in liquids

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Famed abstract artists capture nature as you’ve never seen it before

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Famous Benin Bronzes from West Africa used metal sourced in Germany

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Your Brain on Art review: Fascinating guide needs a bit more science

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