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ARCHAEOLOGY

These Paintings Were Made With Human Blood

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Aug 15, 2026
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Red figures cover the limestone cliffs above the Zuojiang river in Guangxi, in southern China near the Vietnamese border. They were painted between roughly the fifth century BC and the second century…

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