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Terracotta army has egg on its face

China's terracotta army, a collection of 7000 soldier and horse figures in the mausoleum of the country's first emperor, was covered with beaten egg when it was made, scientists say.

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Afghan oil paintings world's oldest

Artists in Afghanistan were painting using oils as far back as the 7th century, research shows, hundreds of years before oil paint was used in Europe.

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Music and art mixed in the Stone Age

The most popular musical events of 12,000 years ago might have taken place in torch-lit caves next to walls covered in art, according to new archaeological research in France.

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Earliest wall art features female genitalia

ANCIENT ART: A massive block of limestone in France contains what scientists believe are the earliest known engravings of wall art dating back some 37,000 years.

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